THE

SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER,

DEVOTED TO

EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE

AND

THE FINE ARTS.

Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au grés des vents.

Crebillon's Electre.

As we will, and not as the winds will.

VOL. XXII.

NEW SERIES, VOL. I.

JANUARY TO JUNE-1856.

JOHN R. THOMPSON, EDITOR.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA:

MACFARLANE, FERGUSSON & CO., PROPRIETORS.