DAY DAWN IN AFRICA: By MRS. ANNA M. SCOTT. New York: Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge. 11 Bible House, Astor Place. 1858. [From P. B. Price, 161 Main Street. This little book contains a highly interesting account of the progress of the Protestant Episcopal Mission at Cape Palmas, Africa, from the pen of a pious and heroic woman who braved the perils of the climate and endured the hardships of exile to carry the gospel into the land of the heathen. The object of it is to enlist a wider public sympathy with the cause of African Missions, and we trust it will have an extensive circulation in our country. If Africa is ever to be raised to an equality with the rest of the world in moral and intellectual character, the work must be the Almighty's, and the missionary society is his chosen agency for its accomplish We have before us Numbers 1 and 2 of the third volume of the Virginia University Magazine, a periodical published under the auspices of the Literary Societies of our State University. The contributions, both in prose and verse, are wholly origi nal, and are highly creditable to the youthful authors. In the editorial department we have evidence of taste and talent in the gentlemen who are charged with the conduct of the work, and we may confidently expect that it will prove an important auxiliary in the high educational training which is carried on at the University of Virginia. Our young friends may consider it an equivocal compliment, but we can say that the "Literary Magazine is an immense improvement on the "Collegian." which we remember pleasantly (in verification of its motto, Hæc olim meminisse juvabit) and of whose editors not less than three are now members of Congress. We heartily wel· come them to the guild editorial. May their duties be light and pleasurable, with an abundance of available "copy," and no lack of paying subscribers; may their symposia be always conducted with harmony and moderation and their proofsheets never fail of proper correction, and may each one of them leave behind him, in the pages of Maga, something to cheer those who shall come after him in the collegiate course. We should like to see the University Literary Magazine placed upon such a basis of material prosperity, that large prizes might be offered, out of its receipts, for the best poem, the best essay, the best review and the best story, produced annually. If every Alumnus of the University would subscribe to it, this might very readily be done. Two Dollars a year is but a small matter to each individual, yet if all the Alumni of the institution would contribute this sum, not only might be the prizes of which we have spoken be distributed, but the Magazine might establish at the University a printing press of its own, which should also print the catalogues and other official documents, in a much neater style and with greater convenience than those publications are now printed elsewhere. We have great satisfaction in annou ing, as an item of literary intelligence, that Mr. A. Morris of this city will shortly publish a new volume of Poems from the pen of James Barron Hope, who is par excellence the living poetical representative of Virginia. This volume will contain what the public are anxious to see, the noble Terminal Ode pronounced by Mr. Hope at the Inauguration of the Equestrian Statue of Washington on the 22nd February last, and afterwards repeated by him to delighted audiences in various parts of the State-it will also contain the Phi Beta Kappa Poem delivered last summer at William and Mary College, and inany minor pieces as yet unpublished. We feel sure that Mr. Hope's volume will be eagerly sought for, and we trust that he will reap a substantial reward from its sales. As a literary man, Mr. Hope is distinguished for catholicity of taste and independence of feeling, and his frequent contributions to the columns of the South mark him as a vigorous prose writer. In poetry he has already established a reputation, and we confidently predict that his genius will be more widely recognized as he continues to give publicity to his fervid inspirations. 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To this office it will still be devoted, and will be prompt to repel assaults upon the South, whether they come under the specious garb of fiction, or in the direct form of anti-slavery pamphlets. At this critical juncture, while our enemies are employing literature as their most potent weapon of attack, the Southern people will surely not withhold their encouragement from a work whose aim it shall be to strike blows in their defence. The MESSENGER will, as heretofore, present its readers with REVIEWS, HISTORICAL and BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, NOVELS, TALES, TRAVELS, ESSAYS, POEMS, CRITIQUES, and Papers on the ARMY, NAVY, and other National Subjects. With a view to ensure a large circulation of the MESSENGER, the Proprietors have reduced the Price of Subscription, which is now only THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE. OR FOUR DOLLARS IF NOT PAID BEFORE THE FIRST OF JULY IN ANY YEAR. CLUBS—Remitting us Fifteen Dollars in one letter, will be entitled to Six Copies. 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