his sons was, for some services which he rendered, dubbed by Miss Cunningham a "Knight of Mt. Vernon." Mr. Thompson also republishes, from a Richmond newspaper, an humorous extravaganza of Dr. Bagly, in which he divides our globe between an American and European Republic and a Russian Empire, and reduces to very subordinate places in the Republic many of those who now claim to be "the hub of the Universe" and the tip-top of civilization. An Alabamian reviews Dr. R. Shelton Mackenzie's five volumes of the works of John Wilson—Christopher North. Coventry Patmore's poems are specially noticed. There is "The Polite Art of Novelling, a Didactic Fiction by G. Buggini Wufficks"; a satire. But there is also a copyrighted novel: "Green way Court; or The Bloody Ground," which is, at its close, acknowledged by John E. Cooke.
Bulwer's "What Will He Do With It?" is doubly reviewed. E. T. defends Lord Macaulay against the assault upon him in the June number of Blackwood. The Messenger started the "Reveries of a Bachelor." It now has those of a widower. It also has observations on "The Cæsars of De Quincey."
Gen. Win. H. Gaines, in a letter to Gen. Henry Lee, April first, 1810, describes the battle of Eutaw. F. Pardigon translates for the Messenger,
