Dreams. By the author of "The Poet.". ...... 294 P Prize Address. By Dr. Henry Myers...... R 833 Return to Delaware. By the Milford Bard...... 721 Evening Clouds..... E 813 671 Extracts from a Poem. By Park Benjamin...... 702 Eve's Compliment to Adam.. 817 832 Siege of Fort Wheeling. 288 Stanzas. By James F. Otis..... 313 Sonnets-Indolence. By Park Benjamin..... Song-written impromptu. By Park Benjamin.. 407 Hope. By the Milford Bard.. 661 Sonnet. By Park Benjamin. 433 694 Scraps from Manuscript Dramas. By Park Ben- 531 Sonnets to "J. D." By C. W. Everest. 693 Impromptu to a Lady Blushing. By C. F. Hoffman 787 Isaiah II. 4. By Rev. E. H. Chapin.. 838 The Amreeta or Drink of Immortality.. The Steamboat Neptune. By Mrs. L. H. Sigour 16 19 The Bride of the Dead. By E. H. C.. 43 By J. E. D... 43 79 85 The Fountain. By Wm. Cullen Bryant....... 365 .... 720 725 The Water. By Mrs. Seba Smith... To the Printers..... The First Polar Voyage. By S. M. Janney. The Sister of Charity. By J. L. 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Direct trade with the South; navigation of the Atlantic; pack- et ships of New York; their influence over the com- merce of the United States, and their effects on Ame- rican naval architecture; packet ships of Boston, Philadelphia, &c.; their origin and progressive im- provement; Norfolk best fitted for the port or empo- rium of the United States; proposition to make that place the centre of exchange for New Orleans and the South; with a chart, (engraved for the Messenger,) showing the track of the "Great Western" on her first trip to New York, the shortest route from London, Liverpool, &c., to New York and to Norfolk, and the proper course to be taken by ships to and fro across the Atlantic, &c. By an officer of the U. S. Navy........ 3. Currente-Calamosities, to the Editor of the Messenger, with numerous poetical selections, on various subjects. Desultory Speculator. "Actors;" origin of the dra- 5. An address delivered before the two Literary Societies 14 ORIGINAL PROSE ARTICLES-(CONTINUED.) PAGE 11. Alice Richmond. A tale, in seven chapters-complete.. 60 12. American Almanac, for 1839. Notice of this valuable publication, with an extract relative to the government of France-the King, Chamber of Peers, and Chamber 13. "Ex-president Adams's Letter to the members of the Franklin Association of Baltimore, in reference to the selection of a young men's library;" appended to which are farther observations on the same subject... 81 14. Notice of a "Lecture on the Study of the Classics, deli- vered in Washington College, Va., September 10, 1938, by George E. Dabney, A. M." Published by request 15. Mola di Gaeta, a sketch from the recollections of a tra- veller-Velletri; the Pontine Marshes; the Appian Way; the Campagna di Romagna; Terracina, Fon- di, &c. By J. L. M., Washington City............. 16. The First Statue of Canova: whimsical occurrence which first introduced this great man to the world- 19. Lines written at Midnight. By Charles M. F. Deems.... 12 20. The Spectre Horseman of Boston. By J. E. Dow....... 13 6. "A Voyage Round the World, including an embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835-36 and 37, by W. S. Rus- chenberger, Surgeon United States Navy, author of 8. Notes and Anecdotes, political and miscellaneous, from 1798 to 1830; drawn from the port-folio of an officer of the empire, and translated from the French for the Messenger, by a gentleman in Paris. Speeches in the Chambers; Prince Talleyrand in July, 1830; the Mar- shal, Duke of Ragusa; M. de Polignac in 1830........ 9. Notes of a Tour from Virginia to Tennessee, in the months of July and August, 1838; by Rev. Henry Ruffner, D.D., President of Washington College, Lex- ington, Va. Chapter I. (To be continued.). 44 24. Dramatic Epigrams. 1. On a Young Lady's saying PROSPECTUS OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSEN THOMAS W. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. in motion, to arouse the enlightened, their number; so that the great enemy vernment may no longer brood, like a p over the destinies of our country. And all these ends, what more powerful ag ployed, than a periodical, on the plan of t if that plan be but carried out in practice THIS is a monthly Magazine, devoted chiefly to LITE-their fitting haunts. Ignorance lords it o RATURE, but occasionally finding room also for articles proportion of our people:-Every spring that fall within the scope of SCIENCE; and not professing an entire disdain of tasteful selections, though its matter has been, as it will continue to be, in the main, original. Party Politics and controversial Theology, as far as possible, are jealously excluded. They are sometimes so blended with discussions in literature or in moral science, otherwise unobjectionable, as to gain admittance for the sake of the more valuable matter to which they adhere: but whenever that happens, they are incidental, only; not primary. They are dross, tolerated only because it cannot well be severed from the sterling ore wherewith it is incorporated. The SOUTH peculiarly requires such all the Union, south of Washington, the Literary periodicals! Northward of that probably at least twenty-five or thirty! justified by the wealth, the leisure, the n the actual literary taste, of the Souther pared with those of the Northern? No: talents, and taste, we may justly cla equality with our brethren; and a dome exclusively our own, beyond all doubt a: choose, twice the leisure for reading and they enjoy: REVIEWS, and CRITICAL NOTICES, occupy their due space in the work: and it is the Editor's aim that they should have a threefold tendency-to convey, in a condensed form, such valuable truths or interesting incidents as are embodied in the works reviewed,-to direct the reader's attention to books that deserve to be read, and to warn him against wasting time and money upon that large number, which merit only to be burned. In It was from a deep sense of this local this age of publications that by their variety and multi-word SOUTHERN was engrafted on the na tude distract and overwhelm every undiscriminating riodical: and not with any design to nou student, IMPARTIAL CRITICISM, governed by the views judices, or to advocate supposed local i just mentioned, is one of the most inestimable and from any such thought, it is the Editor's f indispensable of auxiliaries, to him who does wish to see the North and South bound endear discriminate. forever, in the silken bands of mutual ded he has already drawn, and he hopes here much of his choicest matter thence: and will he deem himself, should his pages, by region know the other better, contribute tial degree to dispel the lowering clou ESSAYS, and TALES, having in view utility or amuse-affection. 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