Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1835-02-19

} SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGERS.
The following Is the table Of contents Of the
January Number " the Southern Literary Mes
senser
Original Adirtes "a Prose.
Sketches of the History of tho present condition
" Irlpoli SC. No 3-Remsrks On the Review of
Gov raicwcll's Report -fhc Annals OF Ejuee.
tion-Stujy ofthe Latin and Greek Classics
Memory, an Allcgory--Lelicrs from New Ems
gland. by a vnginian, No 3-No,e TO Black
stones Commeniaries--Lei,ers from q Sister
The Doom Review Of of the Las, Days Of Pom
peii-Nolices of Visit, and Sketches by Miss ia
nelson of Bryanfs Poems Of L,t,el. Museum
Of Foreign Literature of the Southern Church.
man Dandyism, Editorial Remarks Virginia
Historical aud Philosophical Society Extracts
from Letters of CoUespondsn,s-To Correspoa-
dents, &c.
Sssset<d Pfose ya-tiels.
The Dargle, by Charlie. Wolfe-Phrenoios,e zeal
EKaminati ons-A glimpse at Bns, Hail Amsr,-
can L,tcratule-The Indian Molhcr--The last
Night of Pompeii, ~r,u, The Las, Days of Pom
peil-Varie,y.
Original Poetry.
lmpromp Sianias, addressed to Mis- !
The SYPHILIS Lcaf--To my Wife-Tho Kiss, n Ia
hoos-Love, mutual but hopcless-ro Despair
Visits to an American Vault Tho Passage Of
the Beresina Beauty without Lovelincsss--HaP.
py Lovo-Souows of Love Extemporsi Lines,
on hearing MIR. John Wickham's Speech in the
House Of Delegates, Jar. 6, l83s-Pocms OF Mrs.
Jean Wood-Ths creation of the AneloPe-Napo
Icons Grave. by II. Il. Whds-A Song Of the
Sessons-Ths changes Of Naturs-Sons Air,
Lass Of PA,ies Min.
Selected Poetry.
L. hv Ettrtrk 2hen-
hord--Soag Of the Irish Peasant Wife, by Mrs.
Morton Parody on ROys Wife, by the Ia'o War.
rem r. Davis.
We have not W, found tims to peruse the Janu
ary No. Of the Messenger. But the foregoing ts-
bls Of contents furnishes reason TO believe that II -
no, les. rich in tho interest Of 10 subjects than 'ts
predecessors. Ono Of tho articles e. the Last Night
Of Ponpeli, verspSlhe List Days OF PomPcn) Is
intended to convie, Mr. Bulwer, tho author Of the
last named work, Of pi,ating from Poem, bear
ing tho first named titlo. written some years since
by Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, an American poet,
and now editor sftho North American Magazine,
of Philadelphia. who, in imag NATIVE power, as
we'll az in felicity an beauty Of vershcAi,on has
fo W superors on this continent, and who has hoon
heretofore Kept docn, as ii were,by his own unforu
nate passions. II Is strange. indeed that tho cole.
DRAFTED British novelist, whose pen has charmed
have thrown such a bleh'ing stigma on his well
earned iaurols Ii would, however, DO stranger. II
the same .heme should have kndlcd not only the
sans sentiments bu, embodied them in almost iden,
cal language. in tho two writer's who have treated
upon il We may loook forward to literary
controversy, as it il no, probable tina. tho British
critics will permit thi, mpu'ation Of plagiarism, -
especially from an American poem,-so rest unox'
planned and unrepelled against ono Of tire pillars OF
modern British literature, even should MIR. Bul~er
himself deem it Unnecessary TO vlndcsts himself
from tho degrading charge. We have never see"
Mr.. Farhed's poem bu, II is spokon Of, by eonpe'
len, judges. as a production Of great power and IN
cquvocal Neutrality-suspicious. languIshins in obscur'-
ty on tho shelves Of the booksellers not because OF
its intrinsic defects or want Of interest," but because
its au hor is an American and has info ,,ns,ely,
by his injudcious and. in some instances, dsrepu
table conduct, arrayed agains, him tide Of indig-
nan, feeling, which sven his acknowledge genius
has not enabled him 10 stem