has out a volume), G. P. R. James, A. Judson Crane, Amie, S. A. Talley, John Esten Cooke, Caroline Howard, Emeline S. Smith, Adrian Beaufain, T. Dunn English, George E. Senseney, T. B. Aldrich, Matilda, R. A. Oakes and B. B. Foster.
We have unexpectedly more of the editor's European excursions. He had put all his travels in a book, which was actually printed in New York; but the whole edition was incinerated. After a while, the publisher discovered, in a drawer, a single set of the printed sheets, which he had handsomely bound and sent to Mr. Thompson. So we now have in the Messenger, all that he chose to tell of that famous foreign trip. Amie wrote a poem on the lone volume; which is said to be still in existence.
Bishop Mead's "Old Churches and Families of Virginia" is reviewed; also Poe's "Raven" and its origin traced to Wilson's "Noctes Ambrosianæ, in Old Ebony," number 41, for March, 1829, and to Mrs. E. B. Browning's "Lady Geraldine's Courtship." The novel "Lilias," by Laurence Neville, is finished.
Mr. Thompson tenders to every one concerned a courteous and persuasive "Vive, valeque."
The volumes for 1858 have recognition of both the Army and the Navy. They are also historical,—Virginian and Revolutionary. Mr. C.
