INDEX. Address. By A. B. Longstreet. . . . 651 Cowper. By Henry T. Tuckerman. Culture of the Fine Arts. By J. K. Fisher. Anburey's Travels in America. By C. Campbell. 710 Darkness. . Ancient Eloquence. By W. G. Howard. 822 457 | Desultory Speculator, No. VI. Desultory Thoughts. By T. H. Shreeve. Autobiography of an Irritable Man. - 522 Death has Claimed his Fair Victim. By C. W. Everest 828 Autumn Reverie. By Mrs. E. J. Eames. Diary of a Ruralizer. - - 367 Dirge of the Mariner. By H. T. Tuckerman. . 785 222 563 665 Dying Poet.. . 601 469 713 163 Eagle on Mount Holyoke. . . 686 405 Early Lays. By W. G. Simms. 36—290—444-836 567 By the Rivers of Babylon. By G. B. Wallis. Effects of Unbelief. By Mrs. E. J. Eames. . 546 Canova. By M. Morgan, U. S. N., -No. I. Empire Star. 465 Case of Camoens. By Mrs. Henrietta Shuck 22 Epigram. . . . 326–328–416—469 Channing and the Edinburgh Review.. . . . . Epistola Scotiana. 374 Essay on the Influence of Christianity on the Crimi- nal Law of England. 129 Ethan Allen, . . 460 Evening Walk in the City. By Charles Lanman. 720 - - 402 Excerpts, &c. - - 514-519-549—572574 Commodore Nicolson. . 470 Fables, Translated from Lessing. · · · 530 369 Faded Stars. 55 706 299 Literary Recreations. By Anagram Ferrun. No. I. 451 Literary and Intellectual Distinction. Milhatchee, The Enchanted Warrior. 737 Michal, Saul's Daughter. . . 417 Michigan. By Charles Lanman. Gleanings from Early New England History, 46 Midsummer Fancies. By Geo. D. Strong. Goldsmith. By H. T. Tuckerman. 303 Moral and Mental Portraits. 675 Moral Influence of Authors. · Historic Speculations. By C. of Richmond, Va. 606 Motherless Daughters. No. I.' . History of an Adventurer. Part I. - Home. By Luzerne Ray... 829 Mountains of Virginia. .. Mysteries of the Bible. By W. G. Howard. 545 My Uncle's Unpublished Manuscripts. No. I. . Incident of the War of 1812-’14. .. Inseriority of American Literature. Intercepted Correspondence. By A. D. G. No. I. No. U. 600 Nameless Essay. By Charles Lanman. .. | New Poem, in the Scottish Tongue. . . Irving's Life of Columbus. Night of the Coronation. | North-American Indians. . Island and its Associations. By Edward Parmele. 677 Northern Rambles. . Jefferson. · · · · 642 Ode to Spring. . Oh! Give Me Thy Heart.. Ohio. On the Approach of Winter. On the Death of Christ. Our Country's Flag. By J. W. Mathews... Our Navy. No. I. . 456-514-567 Patriot's Chosen Sepulchre. Lines. By Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt. . . . 820 Percy Bysshe Shelley. By Mrs. Seba Smith . 468 | Poetic Musings. By R. H. Gould. pace Scralos fr Lucky Bag rides 51 281 213 . 611 702 393 / TOM 387 ! Pool of Bethesda. . . 207 609 211 274 68 - 245 Talk with the Winds. 681 468 The Way He Won Her. . 770 233 722 . 491 Thoughts and Reflections. No. I. 660 No. II. 282 280-464-503 . - 296 24–434-488 384 To Antoinette. 586 To My Brother in Town. . To the Rose Geranium. . 325 To A Lady. . 680 To My Brother. 223 . 598 826 To My Mother. . . 641 364 To A Poetess. By T. H. Shreeve. To the Constellation Lyra. By Wm. Wallace. 676 To Her of the Hazel-Eye. By L. J. Cist. 248 622 279 328 To a Lady Convalescent. 383 To My Wife. 41 To Mary. . . 485 . 550 . 578 463 224 . 410 Translation from Tyrtæus. 293 To a Withered Rose. . 240 369 803 Usages, Customs, and Superstitions of the Inhabitants 650 of the Black Mountain. 770 775 25 | Versification of the Eighth Psalm. - . . 341 433 819 660 585 369 Visit to Stratford Hall. · · 800 · 414 Voice of Music. By Mrs. Mary E. Hewitt. 628 Voice of the Lord. · · · · · 732 737 769 329 585 Wants of Society, the True Patrons of Enterprise. 465 376 785 193 211 14 Winter. . 828 . 813 Worthies of Virginia. By Mrs. Seba Smith. · 267 | Wreck of the Hesperus. - . . 846 467 2484 89 393 U. 726 V. 473 W. 60 49 114 Y. EDITOR'S TABLE. PAGE PAGE M. 304 229 R. 304 · Address, delivered before the Philodemic Society of Marian. By Mrs. Hall. . . 232 McDuffic's Eulogy on Hayne. Minor's Address. . . Macauley's Miscellanies. 781 Menzel's German Literature. 582 232 P. 304–388 Pathfinder. . . 582 Pierpont's Poetical Works. Pocahontas. - 231 232 | Rejected Addresses. Sam Slick's Letter-Bag of the Great Western. 762 -777 Specimens in Literature. Extracts. Shelley's Essays, &c. . . Supplement. . . . . The Fruit of the Spirit. . .. | Triumph of Peace. Extracts.. . . - 471 Token-1841. - . : . V. . 304 | Voices of the Night and other Poems. 232 232 231 T. 232 230 SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. PUBLISHED MONTHLY AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM-THOMAS W. WHITE, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. THE DYING EAGLE. ! more clearly than he. But in the somewhat pecu liar plan of his work, and in the measures he meant BY WILLIAM WALLACE. to adopt for its support, he discerned probabilities of Bird of the Storm !-why liest thou here success which had not belonged to his precursors. With closing eye and drooping plume? He made the venture-took his course--and has Is it the coward pang of fear pursued it, until this commencement of a sixth year; Which chains thee to this earthly tomb? No: the red lightnings, in thy sphere so that the MESSENGER may now be considered as Of tempest-midnight-cloud and gloom, established. He has no expressions of triumph now Scorched these bold wings, that dared to soar to utter. The good, which his labors may have Where thunders burst before. done—the varied talent, to which they may have Lord of the Air!-thy mighty heart given scope and exercise—the virtuous principles No longer revels in that pride they may have cherished—the soothing they may Which made the dark-plumed monarch dart have administered to political or to sectional animoWhere whirlwinds rage and dash aside sity—the scourgings they have caused to folly and The mountain-mist, that man's poor art Ever in vain attempts to stride. vice--together with the praises they have won-Our eyes no more shall mark thy form, shall not now form any part of his theme. There The rider of the storm. are other topics, to which he anxiously invokes So sinks the glorions bird !—and so public attention. The high of spirit ever fall! By failures of subscribers to pay what they owe They soar above-the envious blow him, he has lost not less than three thousand dollars. Like thee, poor Eagle, strikes them all! By the necessity to which mainly their tardiness Rest, warrior-bird ! Autumn will throw has subjected him, of employing collectors at a Her dead leaves o'er thec--and thy pall, ruinous commission of 12, 15, and 17 per cent., he Like mine as I would wish, shall be Of Nature's Ministry. Louisville. has lost some thousands more. By the difference of exchange, alone, he has lost at least two thousand more. And, since much of this THE NEW YEAR. loss was upon arrears, which should have been paid before these disastrous times came on,-so much, of When, nearly six years ago, the plan of this Maga- this also, is chargeable to the tardiness of subscribers. zine was formed, how few of its friends believed that He has not-he never had-any large property, it would live to this day! How surely did they or pecuniary resources except in his own skill as a presage not only a speedy death to the work, but printer; and he is of a delicate frame. Thus ruin to its undertaker! situated, he may perhaps justifiably allude to his In truth, it seemed a rash and perilous enterprize. own energy and good management in having ac. The editor's all, of fortune and of credit, was em- complished what he has done—not for the purbarked. May more-he devoted himself, in the ad-pose of self-glorification, but in order to ask, if he renture, to toils and cares, which by their minute- does not merit a better return, than the loss of so ness and complexity, their weight and unceasingness, many thousands? threatened, as they have proved to be, worrying and The Messenger, indeed, is established: and the exhausting beyond all proportion to his humble lot new and costly dress of the present number evinand lowly pretensions.-All Southern experience, ces the editor's confidence, that he can sustain it. too, warned him of the hazard he was running. No But if he can, it will be solely through the literary periodical on our side of Mason's and Dix-success of this appeal. It will be, because former on's line, had been able to survive a sickly infancy- subscribers will make their patronage real and benesickly, in respect of pecuniary aliment, but not always ficial to him-instead of a mockery and a detriment. so, intellectually. A Review had existed for two or It will be, because new ones, attracted by the imthree years in South-Carolina, teeming with articles provements visible from time to time in both the of a power nowhere surpassed; or surpassed only garb and contents of liis Magazine,-animated by by the best of the Edinburg Review. Notwithstand- a wish to aid the sole effort that has given tokens ing its merits, the Southern Review ; alike with the of permanent success, in the cause of Southern various host of kindred attempts, had sunk into a pre- Literature, and resolved to make their help solid mature grave. With such evidences of an ungenial and well-timed, not illusory and destructive,---will climate before his eyes, how could the Editor of come forward to the rescue. But for his confidence the Messenger hope to escape the universal doom? that all this will be, he could not apply the word No one saw these discouraging circumstances'established,' to his work.—He may be vainly and Vol. VI--1 |