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The SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, Vol. VII No. NJ.


for November, ls4l, Pp 7s) Rich aond Va, +. w.


White New York, hing & Co. 1919 Broadway.


The Hunchback, a Pennsy lvania Story, opens
the Messenger for this month. Itis we'll conceived
and strongly written. The following paragraph
vii serve specimen


" In the wilderness. my whole time is much
taken up with company, that have scarce minute
left TO myself. | hold long conversations with the
lark end thrush, and back-brd, and blue-jay upon
music. often coaXing them into furnishing specimens
of natural meody--with the owl, who is another
Kant, upon demonology and der Freyschutx-with
the eagle upon sunlight and gravitaton, and oc-
cul,ation, the atmosphere, milky way, stars, and
plancts--and with the wolf upon lssus, and
Chalons, aud Ansora, and Roncesvellcs, and
Ismail, and Austerlitz, and Waterloo. My forest
friends have taught me a great deal; and, wliha
and in contraven,ion of the common usage, have
charged me nothing for ii, being the only instance
within the scope Of my observation of knowledge
impaired gratis. The owl has taught the value
ef serious and grave demeaNor TO him who would
acquire a name for wisdom; and bid me put on
knowing look when | would pas, for something
uncommon, and rival A. B, c and D, in the worlds
estimation. The thrush taught that in forest
mnstrelsy they know nothing about beats and
bars" and allegro and ateiuoSo" and ledger
lines above and bclow-that all the cadeuzas and
hsurshes of their system OF music are natural, un-
studied and untaught, always executed con amore,
ard with full SOprasO Ii scarce cost the welt hvc
minutes 10 prove beyond cavil, that much as he Is
accused of blood-hr.ty propensities, nc IS not
thoscht. nor a lap, behind the wolves OF my own
kind. whom the world has battered, worshiPed
and dcihed under the name OF conquerors, states
men and heroes. Indeed, there was nothing con-
rccted with forest lifc and the habits of beast and
bird, which did not more fully comprehend at
twelve years of age, than | have sine" understood
any part of the structure OF social LIE, and TIE
qualifications of the social character; although
these las, were explained TO me at ten dollars
euar,cr. and the waste of a. much cIoquence
would have made volume Of popular lectures AT
the Bungtewn Institute. prscocicu'
natural philosopher-at fifteen ripe oinitholosist
en,omologist, ichihyolcgist capable OF editing to
advantage and emendms. with profit to the text,
many a treatise that has passed for erudie. Mine
WAS practical lore, ready at my call simple
correct, md always conducive utility as we'll us
10 amusement.


sAbou Hassan. the Recla>e OF the Mountain, is
a strong and vivid Allcgory-a species of essay not
so popular now as oncc-we think not so popular
as it should be-


Incidents on Ship and Shore IN the Lie oi
Midshipmsn, is Peter Simple sketch, but by no
means equal to its exemPlat.


The Fate OF the Gifted, No. ILL., commends TO
US the biography of a young and gifted friend
Richard Bacon, Jr. intcrspersed with specimens
Of his poetic productions l, will be read with
deep interest by those who knew him.


A Tale OF the Little Lake, by Mrs. Lydia J.
Person, is of no ordinary merl, Mrs. Peir-
son is strong minded, high-hearted woman, who
secluded in one of the wild mountain gorges of
Northern Pennsylvania. surrounded by the cares
Of household in sphere far removed from
aiiuence, yet sends forth to the reading world the
fruits OF hours stolen from her matronly duties
which are steadily winning upon the public ear.
We shall place this story before our readers.


There are good tales or sketches eRiitlcd The
Convct's Last Night She Married Not Her
Choice, Ssencs in the West Intercepted Cor
FsspoRdenc~, and a Visit to the Hospital at
Malta, with articles on Botany and Mons
Alex. vaucncre's System Of Exchanges. The
eleven OriginaI Poems strike US less tavorably,
though several of them are fair. We like best
one on Flowers, BY Mr.. A. NJ. F. Amman (la,e
Mss Buchanan) of Baltimore. Keuka Lake, by


William B. Fairchil3, Is next in merit.


me Messenger IS now issued puaciually on the