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. As we will, and not as the winds will. VOL. III. RICHMOND: THOS. W. WHITE, PUBLISHER AND PROPRIETOR. 1837. ......698 Biography of a Nameless Traveller. Chap. I...... 9 Chaps. II, III.105 72 .258 Chap. V.. ..224 Epistle ..... 352 Chap. VI....512 Euclid and Aristotle British House of Commons 337 .462 Book of Enoch... 472 .424 Beautiful Incident. .768 Eclipse of the Sun in 1838.... .681 G. . 102 .524 Chap. IX.. .579 Genoa. From the Note Book of a Traveller......574 Chap. X .637 Chaps. XI and XII.. .669 H. 721 ..297 Conjectural Reading of a Passage in Macbeth .465 Hypochondriac . ..391 Condor Hunt on the Plains of Chili .664 Hebrew Cabbala. ..467 Colleges in the United States.. .679.) Helen Defended.. 532 .....352 ..693 J. P. 34 32 Journey to Flanders ... 181 No. III. 158 Julia Lee 539 . 103 John Randolph and Miss Edgeworth.. 725 148 160 Literary Man...... 6 208 Learned Languages. No. II. By M. Carey... 11 Polecat or Shell Dance .390 Letter from the other side the Atlantic 468 Portfolio of an Idler 18 Lectures on Greece-M. Perdicaris 159 510 Language of Adam and Eve..... 525 Pickwick Papers . .177 .679 Lecture on Government. By Professor B. Tucker.209 Poets and Poetry. ..717 Life and Character of Wm. H. Crawford. No. I..262 Power of the Steam Engine. No. II..273 Letters of Mr. Jefferson.... ..304 R. Letter to Gen. Washington. 306 37 Love at the Shrines. By H. J. Brent. Rights of Authors..... .438 Lyceum. No. I... Right of Instruction. By Judge Joseph Hopkinson. 39 461 116 No. II... Readings with my Pencil. No. V... .473 No. III... No. VI 668 No. VII 583 No. IV .764 Lord Bacon's Essays. Review of President Dew's Introductory Address. 130 ...504 Lady Arabella..... Remarks on Philology. By Professor Leiber.....161 .601 Lecture. By J. W. Draper Recent Discoveries respecting the Sun's Light .... 240 Literature for the Times 742 Reviews of 72 .323 M.S. of Thomas Jefferson .. 31 323 Boz's Oliver Twist Marco Visconti. By Mrs. E. F. Ellett 135 Bryant's Poems . 41 Mrs. Butler's Book .... .433 90 Miss Edgeworth's Helen 465 325 D’Israeli’s Henrietta Temple. .641 .254 Macbeth, and Helen-again. 674 49 George Balcombe... Moses' Ten Tables , .720 59 Irving's Astoria ... Live and Let Live .690 Lyford's Western Directory. 700 Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers 702 Notes and Anecdotes. Part I.... ...121 Miss Sedgwick's Poor Rich Man, &c...... .331 Part II. .246 Mrs. Hall's Conversations on the Bible .399 Part III .287 N. C. Brook's Scriptural Anthology 1.594 Part IV 380 Partisan Leader... 68 ..514 Part VII .559 The Great Metropolis.... .309 Part VIII, .629 Part IX. .718 S. New England Character... .412 New Jersey ..... 229 Study of the Law..... N. P. Willis and his Farm, 477 Sully. A Tale. Letters I and II.... ..117 Napoleon and Josephine .173 Letters III, IV, and V. .713 New England Morals... .764 Letters VI, VII, VIII, IX and X..227 Somnambulist .152 0. Scrapiana 147 Speech of Mavromichalis... . 200 Odds and Ends. No. I..... .196 Sketch of Physiology of Mental Emotion ..308 No. II. ..242 Succinct Account of the Sandwich Islands .417 N. 73 25 .194 Drink and Away. . 130 .245 Double or Quit ... ..172 .284 Death of Miss Patterson 222 ..434 Death of an Old Indian .253 .315 Dirge of Young Nuns for a Departed Sister.. 352 ..406 Dying Blind Girl... .379 Dade's Massacre.. ..437 Dithyrambic... .480 Deformed Girl to her Mother. By J. C. McCabe..489 5 Dreams. To F .539 95 Dull Neighborhood . .600 353 .505 E. .673 .711 Enigma de J. J. Rousseau 95 Epigram.. 155 155 Epitaph. On a Young Lady ..216 ..196 .245 F. .428 584 Flowers .180 .726 .216 ..732 | Fisherman of Venice .635 C. Compliment. On Miss M- |