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Various productions of Poetry have been received and submitted to the Prize-Committee-and the Prize-Poem will be published in the March No. of the Messenger. TO THE FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF THE MESSENGER. The Southern Literary Messenger will neither be discontinued nor suspended, in consequence of the death of its late proprietor. The representatives of Mr. White will either make speedy arrangements for the sale of the establishment, or for the employment of an able Editor, to conduct it. Editors friendly to the Messenger, will please give the above notice one or two insertions in their respective papers. PROSPECTUS OF THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. This is a monthly Magazine, devoted chiefly to LITERATURE, but occasionally finding room also for articles that fall within the scope of SCIENCE; and professing no 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. REVIEWS, and CRITICAL NOTICE, 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 this age of publications, that by their variety and multitude distract and overwhelm every undiscriminating student, IMPARTIAL CRITICISM, governed by the views just mentioned, is one of the most inestimable and indispensable of auxiliaries, to him who does wish to discriminate. ESSAYS, and TALES, having in view utility or amusement, or both-HISTORICAL SKETCHES-and REMINISCENCES of events too minute for History, yet elucidating it, and heightening its interest,-may be regarded as forming the staple of the work. And of indigenous POETRY, enough is publishedsometimes of no mean strain-to manifest and to cultivate the growing poetical taste and talents of our country. The times appear, for several reasons, to demand such a work-and not one alone, but many. The public mind is feverish and irritated still, from recent political strifes:-The soft, assuasive influence of Literature is needed, to allay that fever, and soothe that irritation. Vice and folly are rioting abroad:-They should be driven by indignant rebuke, or lashed by ridicule, into their fitting haunts. Ignorance lords it over an immense proportion of our people:-Every spring should be set in motion, to arouse the enlightened, and to increase their number; so that the great enemy of popular government may no longer brood, like a portentous cloud, over the destinies of our country. And to accomplish all these ends, what more powerful agent can be employed, than a periodical, on the plan of the Messenger; if that plan be but carried out in practice? The SOUTH peculiarly requires such an agent. In all the Union, south of Washington, there are but two Literary periodicals! Northward of that city, there are probably at least twenty-five or thirty! Is this contrast justified by the wealth, the leisure, the native talent, or the actual literary taste, of the Southern people, compared with those of the Northern? No: for in wealth, talents, and taste, we may justly claim at least an equality with our brethren; and a domestic institution exclusively our own, beyond all doubt affords us, if we choose, twice the leisure for reading and writing, which they enjoy. It was from a deep sense of this local want, that the word SOUTHERN was engrafted on the name of this periodical: and not with any design to nourish local prejudices, or to advocate supposed local interests. Far from any such thought, it is the Editor's fervent wish, to see the North and South bound endearingly together forever, in the silken bands of mutual kindness and affection. Far from meditating hostility to the north, he has already drawn, and he hopes hereafter to draw, much of his choicest matter thence: and happy indeed will he deem himself, should his pages, by making each region know the other better, contribute in any essential degree to dispel forever the lowering clouds that so lately threatened the peace of both, and to brighten and strengthen the sacred ties of fraternal love. The SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER has now commenced its NINTH VOLUME, and NINTH YEAR. How far it has acted out the ideas here uttered, is not for the Editor to say. He believes, however, that it falls not further short of them, than human weakness usually makes Practice fall short of Theory. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. P. D. BERNARD, PUBLISHER. 1. Cases of Mutiny at Sea, (continued.) General Howe's letter to General Washington, reporting the proceedure against the Jersey Brigade; Two of the mutineers shot; Their summary execution; How they behaved; Extracts from Dr. Thacher's Military Journal; Who were the executioners; Trials and exposures of military life; The storming of Stony Point; Disobedience of orders; A soldier put to instant death; The battle of Bosworth field; Story of Richard III., and the sleeping sentinel; The Somers; Opinion of the Court of Inquiry; Acquittal of Mackenzie; Duty in battle; A Midshipman's first lesson; Deserting quarters; The heinousness of; Gallant conduct of young Jarvis; Casabianca at the battle of the Nile; Lines by Mrs. Hemans PAGE 133 2, Alison's History of Europe. The Messrs. Harper and cheap Literature; Effects of international copy-right; French Revolution; Something about slavery; The insurrection of St. Domingo; How it was brought about; The prison of the Abbaye; Horrid butchery; The noble Dufoeé; Treachery; Madame Roland; Her appearance and conduct on the scaffold; Touching incidents; Popular phrenzy; How the graves were broken open and rifled; Religion abolished; Reduction of Lions; The brave Percy..........136 3. The Muffled Priest-A Scene in Rome. A church; The Priest; The throng; Armenius; A Senator; Something mysterious; Two lovers; Plots; Mischief afloat; The dead alive; A false step.... 4. Floretta; or, the First Love of Henry IV., from the German of Henry Zschokke. By G. F. Struve. The young Prince of Bearn; The fair of Nerac; The cross-bow shooting; How Henry shot away the targets, and how Floretta gave him a rose; The thorn it left; The spring; The garden; The stolen interview; Louis' last resort..149 5. Dialogues of the Dead. 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The Editorial Department will remain under the direction of its present efficient and able Editor, of whose ability, the reader may judge by the present, as well as many of the subsequent numbers. P. D. BERNARD. Mr. Henry M. Lewis is our agent for Alabama, Tennessee, and part of Missouri. Mr. Israel E. James is our agent for the South and South-Western States and Florida, assisted by James K. Whipple, Wm. H. Weld, O. H. P. Stem and Henry Platt. Mr. C. W. James is our agent for the Western States, Iowa and Wisconsin, assisted by Moses Meeker, James R. Smith, J. B. Humphreys, J. T. Dent, and J. W. Ewing. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. VOL. IX. PUBLISHED MONTHLY, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. RICHMOND, MARCH, 1843. THE PRIZE POEM. The readers of the Messenger will remember, that in the December number, the late lamented Editor, upon the suggestion of a spirited correspondent, offered the premium of a silver cup for the best poem which should be presented to, and approved by, a Committee appointed for that purpose. That Committee has had a meeting, consisting of all its members, and after due consideration has awarded the prize cup to Miss Evelyn H. Taylor, of Virginia, for the subjoined stanzas addressed to “A new pen.” The task of selection, under such circumstances, is always unpleasant and invidious. The competitors for the prize having had entire freedom in the choice of a theme, their contributions were, of course, various in measure, style and subject. Some were beautiful and successful imitations of established English authors; others were distinguished for smoothness, beauty, and even vigor of compo sition, but none seemed, in the eyes of the Committee, to combine, with some of these qualities, so much originality as the production of Miss Taylor. The public, however, will have an ample opportunity to judge for itself, as, under the reserved right to do so, many of the poems, which, if not favored with the awarded prize, are nevertheless prized highly—will be published in the present and future numbers of the Messenger. TO A NEW PEN. Lie there! lie there! still pure as unstained snow- In characters of Thought, that Time shall ne'er efface. Thou art the Soul's Recorder, and thy course Takes with it Good and Evil-separate never NO. 3. Can'st thou, too, pierce the dark and shadowy tomb, That gush from Woman's heart in every time, Doth the deep Beauty of still Death with thee Or the stern warrior's rigid majesty? The sadness of old musings to destroy, And bid grey frowning forecast instant vanish? Art thou familiar with the thoughts of Love? Can'st thou pour forth his heart in seen affection? Can'st thou join earthly hopes with souls above, Binding the severed in such strong connection That sorrow's self can patient be, and smile, And look for holier things, and wait "a little while?" Art thou all powerful thus, and yet mine own? It makes thee dear, whilst here I muse alone, And thou shalt never change but with my heart- Sheds down full stores of each-gathered from every age. But thou art now even of myself a part, Quiet, but mighty! From thy silent work, How starts to life the vanished world of Time! Mysteries but late divined around thee lurk The thoughts of Angels, and the hopes of Crime- Glorious Bard! Rare Painter! Lyrist high! Interpreter of centuries gone by! Untomber of the Dead, whose mighty mould What! Can'st thou tongue the Pyramids, and send Within the enchantment of thy crowded spell? VOL. IX-17 And my soul's atmosphere must make thy clime. Loved, true, habitual Friend, thy voice shall steal, Even when it breathes their strength, all woes this breast can feel. And thou shalt give its melody of love, Its light of Hope, its joy of faith in God, Fate writes her fiat in the glittering Heaven God stamps his Will on Fate, and worlds obey. Such be Thy glory-'midst all other themes, The first-the last-to consecrate thy power. Heaven be the brightness of our earthly dreams, And Mercy of our last, and happiest hour, When, through the gates of Death, pure light shall stream, And Home and Peace with God, on an Immortal beam. |