The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1838-03-08
LITERARY MESSENGER.
aIsrED AND PUBLISHED IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
T. w. WHITE, EDITOR AND PRopnIEroR.
TABLE OF CONTENTS


OF the December No, which will be issued on Tues
" day the 18th inst. This number closes the third vol
ume Of this periodical The LIST No Of the 4h volume
will be ready for delivery the LIST January, 1888
ORIGINAL PAPERS.
William Wordsworth BY yirgnian.
Steps Of Dance.
Napoleon and Josephine. BY Virginian.
Power OF the Steam Engine.
Notes and Anecdotes, Political and Miscellaneous, from
l79s 10 ls30-drawn from the Portfolio OF an Officer Of
the Empire; and translated by gentleman in Paris,
from the French, for the Messenger, Count Du-
pont; An Anagrm; NJ. B. L., of the French
Academy; The Farrier Of the 22d Regiment OF Chas:
seurs An Official Journal; The Emotion Of M, Of
the French Academy; incubation for the Plague; The
Law Of Sacrege.
Moses Ten Tables.
Constantine the Rejected Throne BY the Author oil
"Sketches of Private Life and Character of William
H. Crawford" IN Fourteen Chapters Chaps. XIII
and XIV. (Concluded)
John Randolph and Miss Edgeworth.
Singular Blunder.
The Deserter A Romance Of the American Revolution.
founded well authenticated incident. In Ten
Chapters. Chapters VIII and TX.
Tour the Northern Lakes BY citizen Of Abemare.
Literature for the Times. Stories from Real Life de-
signed teach true independence and domestic econo
my. TO be completed in Ave parts. Part Nv. The
Savings Bank and other Stories.
Translation.
Old Age. BY Firgnian.
st. Ursula.
An Grafton, delivered by John Tyler, at York Town,
October 10Th, 1887.
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, of the United States
Senate.
The Token for 1888.
The Text OF Shakspear.
New England Morals
The Lyceum No Nv. On the practice OF Applauding
Public Speakers.
Origin of Language in the British Islands Translated
from La Revue Franchise" by Samuel F. Glenn.
Beautiful incident. !
Importance Of Early Education [From the Journal Of
Education.l [Selected.]
ORIGINAL POETRY.
Behold the Dreamer Cometh.
To Mary BY III. Thompson.
Cupid Wounded Translacdfrom the Greek by French
Officer.
Lines accompanying richly wrought Italian Coverlid,
Presented to General Lafayette. his first arrival at
the Eagle Hotel, Richmond, Va, October 1924.
COMPOUNDED Bores.
Tamerlane From the Persian.
Presentiment.
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