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.

As we will, and not as the winds will.

VOL. XX.

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA:
MACFARLANE, FERGUSSON & CO.

1854.

INDEX.

THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER.

VOLUME XX.

ORIGINAL ARTICLES.

571

636
652

59-62

Editor's Table:-New Year's Salutations-Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher-Monsieur Jean Bap-
tiste Robinet, of St. Louis-New York Ex-
press on Alfred Bunn-La Feuille-Death of
Professor Courtenay-Opening of the Peters-
burg Library,
Mrs. Mowatt-Why does a Mule run faster by
night than by day-The "Little Cockade"-
Death of Judge Charlton-Harper's Maga-
zine-Annabel Lee-Ambiguous Correspon-
dents-Flush Times of Alabama, &c., 123-125
Galt's Jefferson-The XIXth Psalm-Cicero on
the law of Gravitation-The Mill Question
once more-La Feuille,
Putnam's Monthly-Death of Sergeant Talfourd-
Letter from Dr. Gessner Harrison-Punch on
the Eastern War-News from across the wa-

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