PAYMENTS FOR THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, RECEIVED SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF THE JULY NO. OF THE MESSENGER. Belden, Laurel O.. .ws.... .North Carolina....vol 5 vol 5 vol 5 .vol 5 .vol 5 vol 5 All persons making payment, and whose names are not recorded on the covers of the Messenger within two months there- England, James R...... Edwards, Miss Maria.. Franklin, Dr. M. A.. Edgeworth, A. E. Freeman, Mrs. Ann Y... Grubbs, Peter W... MMS. MEDICAL COLLEGE, IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. The next Winter Term of Lectures in the Medical Depart ment of Hampden Sidney College, at Richmond, will commence on MONDAY, Oct. 21st, 1839, and continue until the last of February following. AUGUSTUS L. WARNER, M. D., Professor of Surgery and Surgical Anatomy. JOHN CULLEN, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. TH. JOHNSON, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Physiology. L. W. CHAMBERLAYNE, M. D., Prosessor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. R. L. BOHANNAN, M. D., Professor of Obstretics and the Diseases of Women and Children. SOCRATES MAUPIN, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy. The College Infirmary, attached to the College Building, has been in successful operation for the last eight months, and furnishes constantly a number of interesting Medical and Surgical cases-to which the student has access at all hours. The College Infirmary, together with the Alms House, Penitentiary and Armory, (which are under the charge of two of the Professors,) will afford the student an opportunity of wit Ohio....vol 5 Selden, James M.......ws ...Maryland.... vol 5 nessing the various diseases incident to a Southern climate. The abundance of materials for Anatomical purposes, and the reduced price at which they are furnished, will enable the student to acquire an intimate knowledge of the Anatomy of the human body, and the use of Surgical Instruments. During the last Winter Course of Lectures, from the number of Surgical Cases admitted into the Infirmary, the Professor of Surgery was enabled to exhibit before the class, nearly all the important Surgical operations upon the living subject; and from the growing popularity of the Infirmary, there is reason to believe that hereafter the Surgical Cases in the House, will greatly increase. Good Board, including fuel, lights, servants' attendance, &c., can be obtained in this city for four dollars per week. We are authorized to state that a full Course of Lectures in this Institution will be received as equivalent to one in the following Medical Schools: University of Pennsylvania; Jeffer son Medical College of Philadelphia; Medical College of the Ky.; University of Maryland, &c. &c. State of South Carolina; Transylvania University, Lexington, The Professor of Anatomy will open the Dissecting Rooms of the College on the first of October. Richmond, May 24th, 1839. AUG'S. L. WARNER, M. D.. 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The College Infirmary, attached to the College Building, has been in successful operation for the last eight months, and fur: nishes constantly a number of interesting Medical and Surgical cases-to which the student has access at all hours. The College Infirmary, together with the Alms House, Penitentiary and Armory, (which are under the charge of two of the Professors,) will afford the student an opportunity of wit. Ralston, John............ ..........New Orleans....vol 5 nessing the various diseases incident to a Southern climate. The abundance of materials for Anatomical purposes, and the reduced price at which they are furnished, will enable the student to acquire an intimate knowledge of the Anatomy of the human body, and the use of Surgical Instruments. During the last Winter Course of Lectures, from the number of Surgical Cases admitted into the Infirmary, the Professor of Surgery was enabled to exhibit before the class, nearly all the important Surgical operations upon the living subject; and from the growing popularity of the Infirmary, there is reason to believe that hereafter the Surgical Cases in the House, will greatly increase. Good Board, including fuel, lights, servants' attendance, &c., can be obtained in this city for four dollars per week. We are authorized to state that a full Course of Lectures in this Institution will be received as equivalent to one in the fol- The Professor of Anatomy will open the Dissecting Rooms of the College on the first of October. AUG'S. L. WARNER, M. D., Richmond, May 24th, 1839. Dean of the Medical Faculty. PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM-THOMAS W. WHIte, editor AND PROPRIETOR. VOL. V. RICHMOND, SEPTEMBER, 1839. CEDIPUS AT COLONOS FROM THE CHORAL PIECE OF SOPHOCLES. Thou hast come to the land of the steed! Oh stranger-to homes of the blest! To the clime that is fairest indeed; To Colonos, the silvery drest! Where the voice of the nightingale ever Is heard in the green-growing vale; Where she dwells with the ivy, that never Hath moved its dark leaves to the gale; No. IX. RECENT AMERICAN POETRY.* Thirty years ago, it was an easy task, in our country, to make a poetical reputation. A few metrical compositions, thrown together into a thin mis-shapen volume, were quite sufficient to form a halo, or weave a garland, for the brows of any infatuated young person, who, like Gray's 'moping owl,' took solitary satisfaction in complaining to the moon. In those days there was a plentiful lack of the vision and the faculty divine;' and when, occasionally, it chanced to shine upon the upturned, wondering eyes of mortals, they almost looked Where the sun never shone thro' the groves of the God; to behold the dispenser of fanciful splendors, Where the fruits of the trees over-teem; Where never the foot of the traveller trod, Nor star shot a wandering beam; Where Bacchus still roves through the blissful abode, That crowned the fair goddess of old; That down to Cephisus are rolled. Thou hast come where there groweth a tree, None such by the Dorian sea, Or the land of the east, hath been sung; 'Tis the fear of our foes,-and shall be Forever the nurse of our young! 'Tis the azure-leaved fountain of oil, Our land is the queen of the sea! Our land is the land of the steed! And such 'tis our glory to be, To the god who gave all, be the meed! For the boast of our song, and our lyre! Highlands of the Hudson, July, 1839. Bestride the lazy-pacing clouds, And sail upon the bosom of the air. To the fact we assert, bear witness the names of many who, never having perpetrated verses enough to eke out a volume, were destined to an immortality of preservation in the amber of Mr. Samuel Kettell's 'Specimens of American Poetry.' Were it not for the existence and assistance of that illustrious compendium, we have some doubt whether we should ever have been aware of the brilliant sparkles which those meteors emitted in their time. Even under the supposition that their glories had burst through the obscurity of our researches, we should hardly have deemed them fixed stars in the firmament of fame, had they not so appeared to the telescopic observation of Mr. Kettell. *We have before us a work entitled "The Ruins of Athens; Titania's Banquet, a mask; and other Poems ;" of which we intended to publish a review. But the above article, froin the Democratic Review, having fallen under our eye, containing a notice of Mr. Hill's volume, among others, we have concluded to substitute it for the intended review. We do not say that we are prepared to adopt all the opinions of the writer set forth in the above. There will be a difference of opinion, perhaps, among our readers-which will be decided by each individual agreeably to his own taste-as to whether Mr. Bryant is entitled to the topmost seat among our American poets. Of this we are certain, that his Thanatopsis and his Lines to the Evening Wind, are powerful claims to that high honor. We say high honor, for, although, as the reviewer well remarks, "thirty years ago it was an easy task in our country, to make a poetical reputation," and the chief of such poets, then, would, perhaps, now be harping his measures to the dull waters of Lethe-still, at the present day, he who wins the palm must indeed be one of whose work it can be said, that "from the library of English poets it would be difficult to select a more freshly pleasing volume." There are lyres of glorious tone strung all along on the heights of our Parnassus, and twined with wreaths wet with the dews of Helicon, and he who touches the most cunning chord of all, must use a master-hand and draw out all the sweetest music of his instrument. We are gratified to find that Halleck and Sprague are placed so high in the list. But we ask, where is the name of him who wrote the "Coral Grove?" Where is the name of "Percival?" We do not see it among the number. Surely, when our choicest spirits are mentioned he deserves a place? We have already inflicted quite an article upon the reader in the form of a note, and we hasten, therefore, to relieve him of our "talk," by urging him to partake of the banquet culled for him among the rich dainties of the Democratic Review. [Editor So. Lit. Messenger. |