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| ScvTHERY LITERARY MESSENGER: September, 1872. T
W. WHITE, Richmond, Va.
Riego, or the Spanish Martyr, Play in Five
Acts with two of which this number opens, is
vivid portraiture ard contrast Of the Despotic
and Liberal elements which have for twenty years
divided and convulsed Spain. The embroidery o.
treacherous tyrant Ferdinand, which the next
generation will discredit as some monssrous fabri
cation Of partisan bitterness is brought in bold re-
lief The merits of Riego as Poem, however,
are secondary to it's Historic fidelity.
The Genealogy of Ideas is the text Of an In
| structive essay, tracing some grand and striking
thoughts FROM modern authors back
through other ages and tongues toward 1--WE dare
not say toy their source in other lands and ages.
Byron and Campbell ere the principal victims,
Of rather victimizers, and they are plRcked re-
morsee.sly.
Extracts from the Journal of an American Ma
val Officer erlbody succnct history of the ope-
ratons of our gallant Navy against the West In
dian Pirates in l82I-or at least OF good portion
of those operations. in which the narrator was an
actor. The narrative is full of heroic daring and
stern endurance, and richly repays perusal.
Our Poets, No. H. is the title of an appre-
ciating account of Richard H. Dana and his poem,
The Buccaneer,' with Chances at Holmes, Low
ell, etc. by a Southron. They are written visor-
ously and are mainly just, though the writer hugs
in sundry political and other speculations which
have no proper connection with his subject
Madam de GENTS, by Jane T. Lomax, is a
correct and thoughtful essay on the writings Of
some eminent French authors now fading rapidly
from the literary horizon.
Napoleon and Wellington is the theme of a
noble aud truthful essay on Napnleon's conquests
and reverses, by NJ. Jules Maurel, translated for
the Messenger. We have read nothing frank
and judicious this subject from any French Wi
ter, and had almost despared of q return to sanity
in the Grande Nation, on the subject of Bona
parties vices of system, intense se6shness of pur-
pose, and absurd contempt of the nations he
brsved and oppressed, and by which he was ulti-
mately conquered. This essay is full of instruc-
ton for monarchs. conquerors and statesmen.
christianity and Patriotism is the theme of
well-inteuded but not well-consdered article. The
writer dogmatises too intensely Tor successlui
rcasoner. He insists that Liberty and Patriotism
can only flourish in connection with Protestast
Christianity. Ye. he embodes manynobe thoughts
and just reflections.
The Greek Dramatists, by c. Minnigerode,'
professor in William and Mary,) opens with an
eloquent tribute to Ancient Greece, thence pro-
ceeding to an analysis ofthe Prometheus Chained
Of !Eschyus. 1t i. evidently the work of ripe
scholar, but one who deems it derogaton TO be
Ineligible and instructive those of the common
est attachments.
We have thus run over all the prose papers of
any considerable length in the number, having first
read them with Fixed attention. Among the Po-
ems are contributions from Miss Jane I. Lomax,
Mrs E. J. Eanes, Mrs. Anna c. Mowatt, L. J.
Cist and others. The strength of the Messenger
has never yet lain in this department. but the
verses of the two first named are good. We quote
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