THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER: DEVOTED TO EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS, Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au gré des vents. Crebillon's Electre. VOL. V. RICHMOND: THOS. W. WHITE, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. 1839. INDEX. SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER-VOLUME V. ORIGINAL PROSE ARTICLES. 348 PAGE PAGE Address to the Friends and Subscribers of the Babylon-a Poem. By C. W. Everest.......... 102 Messenger......... ................... Bridgewater Treatises. By Rev. William Kirby, a chart, engraved for the Messenger. By an Bayle, the Sceptic.............. ............. 289 Officer of the U. S. Navy................... 2 | Biographical Sketches of Living American Poets. 541 An Address delivered before the two Literary So Bridgewater Treatises. An elaborate view of... 548 cieties of Randolph Macon College, Virginia. Beautiful Extract.... ....... 702 By Hon. John Tyler..... A Voyage Round the World..... Alice Richmond. A Tale, in seven chapters...... American Almanac, for 1839..... Currente-Calamosities. By J. F. Otis. No. I.... 14 ............ 80 No. II........ 94 A Review of two pieces entitled “New Views of the Solar System, by a Virginian,” and published No. III....... 216 No. IV..... 254 in Vol. IV, Nos. VII and XII, of the Messenger 105 No, V....... A Comparison. An extract......... .......151 A Good Resolve. An extract......... No. VI....... 397 216 No. VII....... 506 Anthon's Classical Series..... 294 No. VIII...... 521 A Mercurial Visitor, with Variations...... 310 Nos. IX & X.. 696 Animal Magnetism..... 319 No. XI....... 721 A Leaf from an Unpublished Manuscript....... A Stray Leaf from a Bachelor's Note Book...... Confessions of a Novel Reader. By a Virginian Gentleman... Aphorisin. By Heinse..... .............. 179 ....... 440 110 Crawford, Wm. H. Reminiscences of.......... 361 A Journey Across the Andes. By W. B. H..... A Discourse on American Political Science. By Character of "Medea.”...................... 383 Prof. Tucker of William and Mary College... 559 Catalepsy. By a member of the medical profession 433 Address on Civil Engineering. By Prof. Milling Christopher Marshall's Remembrancer. Notice of 440 Ceremony, Experience and Life. By C. Campton of William and Mary College........... 592 1 bell of Petersburg....... ............... 572 Address delivered before the Students of William Candia, Island of. By Lewis Cass, Esq......... 709 and Mary College. By Prof. Robert Saunders. 595 Affliction, ....... Catalepsy........ 834 Adversity and Prosperity...................... 703 D Amram, the Seeker of Oblivion............... Anniversary Address, before the Richmond Ly Desultory Speculator. No. IV........ ....... 17 ceum. By Rev. E. H. Chapin.............. 725 No. V................. 597 Address delivered before the Horticultural Society Dorcas Lindsay, or the Bachelor's Writing Desk.. 48 of Maryland. By Zaccheus Collins Lee, Esq.. 758 | Difference in Disposition. An extract.......... 145 A Jerseyman in the Old Dominion............. 799 Dr. Mitchell's Poems.. 351 ........... PAGE ·,.,... 124 PAGE No. II... 629 587 614 No. II... 723 676 No. Ill... 815 733 M 86 221 290 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence... 417 “Man Was Made to Mourn."....... 572 441 My Cousin Helen. Only a sketch. By T. H. E. 606 705 Mother Goose's Melodies. Notice of........... 620 725 Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, again ... 748 Machiavel's Political Discourses upon the First 819 827 401 637 N 39 Notes of a Tour from Va. to Tennessee. Chap. I. 44 625 Chap. II., 137 717 Chap. III.. 206 Chap. IV.. 269 Notice of a Lecture on the Study of Classics.... 83 169 Notes and Anecdotes, from 1798 to 1830..,,. 380 Notice to the reviewer of “New Views of the 224 360 632 770 777 839 103 0 662 Observations on the III Health of American Women 89 704 793 P 287 Pencilled Passages. By Park Benjamin. No. I.. 356 No. II. 379 375 505 742 Pauline Blenlis, or the Disappointed Bridegroom. 764 773 393 152 No. II. 459 531 No. III. 567 No.IV. C02 667 146 No. VI.. 766 No. VII... 810 454 257 R 304 No. II..... 218 .......... 448 ... 2 PAGE PAGE 370 ...................... 456 ............ 465 G. W. M.. ..... 519 ......... 529 · 836 | The Tuckahoe Colony of Virginia. By C. Camp- bell, of Petersburg......... The Missionary. A Tale... The Hen......................... 620 The Innocent Avenger. By Park Benjamin..... 696 The Poets of America ........................ Thoughts and Reflections........ The Knickerbocker and the Gentleman's Maga- zine. Notice of........ The Bachelor Beset, or the Rival Candidates. By Mrs. Maria Georgian Milwood.............. 751 The Good and the Bad........... 757 The Mountain of the Burning Stone. A Legend. ..... 116 | The History of Virginia...... The Smithsonian Institute.................... 828 The Aurora................................ 832 328 406 Uncle Pete and the Bear. By the author of the ......... 430 194 V 225 Velaseo, a Tragedy. Notice of.. 150 Verbal Criticisms....... Virtue--ils immortality, &c... w 316 Washington, George. Appreciation of Washing- ton's character by Europeans..... .. 416 127 135 141 : 292 ........ 429 PAGE Autumnal Storms. By Park Benjamin......... 622 80 | Amator Loquitur. By James F. Otis........... 629 ... 210 в 303 16 33 419 | Bird of My Heart. By Park Benjamin......... 236 355 |