THE FOURTH VOLUME
An editorial, "The New Year," opens Volume IV. Besides a holiday salutation to subscribers, readers and contributors, it lays great stress upon the benefits of practice in writing. The Messenger continues its useful feature of presenting in full, or in reviews, excellent addresses by distinguished authors. Thus we have Samuel L. Southard, Jos. R. Ingersoll, Edward Everett, D. L. Carroll, Beverly and Geo. Tucker, Henry Ruffner, James E. Heath, Geo. D. Armstrong, Henry L. Pinckney, etc.
Among the new contributors are C. W. Everest, Dr. Jno. L. Martin, Chas. Campbell, Charlotte Barnes, W. W. Andrews, C. M. F. Deems, F. W. Thomas, and Horatio King. There are essays, sketches and stories. With the aid of the Edinburgh Review, Lord Bacon is extensively considered. Judges Carr, Taney and other distingués are sketched; Miss Martineau and Bulwer are reviewed; justice is done to Simms, who, with all the fair drawbacks and discounts against him, is the hero and leviathan of Southern Literature. Judge Harper furnishes his
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