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Return to Delaware. By the Milford Bard...... 721
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The First Polar Voyage. By S. M. Janney.
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1. Editor's Address to the Friends and Subscribers of the

Messenger, on the commencement of the fifth volume..

2. A scheme for Rebuilding Southern Commerce. 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.

By James F Otis....

Desultory Speculator. "Actors;" origin of the dra-
matic art, and the estimation in which it was held by
the Greeks and Romans; the Mysteries, or Sacred
Drama; saints and martyrs of the players; prejudice
of modern nations against the professors of the drama-
tie art; public opinion on the subject in this country;
talents necessary to constitute a good actor, &c. By G.
W., Washington City.......

5. An address delivered before the two Literary Societies

of Randolph Macon College, Va., June 19, 1838; by

Hou. John Tyler. Published by request of the two so-

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24. Dramatic Epigrams. 1. On a Young Lady's saying
she was in love with the Drama. 2. On Manager
Ward's announcing that he must change his Theatre
into a Circus.....

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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

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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. Far from meditating hostility ment, or both-HISTORICAL SKETCHES-and REMINIS CENCES of events too minute for History, yet elucidating it, and heightening its interest,—may be as forming the staple of the work. And of indigenous POETRY, enough is published-sometimes of no mean strain-to manifest and to cultivate the growing poeti-threaten the peace of both, and to brighten cal taste and talents of our country. en the sacred ties of fraternal love. The SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER

The times appear, for several reasons, to demand such a work-and not one alone, but many. The pub- | in existence four years-the present No lic mind is feverish and irritated still, from recent politi- the FIFTH VOLUME. How far it has acted cal strifes:-The soft, assuasive influence of Literature here uttered, is not for the Editor to say is needed, to allay that fever, and soothe that irritation. however, that it falls not further short Vice and folly are rioting abroad:-They should be human weakness usually makes Practice driven by indignant rebuke, or lashed by ridicule, into Theory. CONDITIONS.

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