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1.-THE SOUTHERN LITERARY
 MESSENGER,n


 TIE MESSENGER has been estabI shed more han eteren yearS-much longer than any other southern work ever exlsed-during which it has maintained the highest rank among American Periodicals. IL has always been emiaeatiy Southern; and for several years, has been addressing itself to the West both editorlaliy and by it's abest contributors. It will coninne to address itself to the
 SOUTH AND JYEST, And will look to them mainly for support. To in ttcate this and it's union with Simms' Magazine, the titles of the separate works will be blended in 1.-THE SOUTHERN .4ND WESTERN LIT ER.3Rf MESSENGIfR .fND RETIEW;" Retaining tn: features of each but improving them as far as practicable Whilst 1t will be distinci,peiy the advocate of the SOUTH AND WEST, its mot to vii be
 "La the Union and for he Un,on! Ia Me South and
 HeSt aRd for he South and Hest" It will be published simultaneously in Charles ton and in Richmond. The subscribers to Smms' Magazine especially, and the friends of Southern and Western Literature, and the people generally, arc invited to enlist in its behalf
 The aid of MT. Simms has been secured, not only as contributor but in the Critical and Edto- rial departments; and other Southern and Western contributors will will be added 10 those already en- gagged for the Messenger.
 Communications for the Messenger and Review may be sent to the office in Richmond
 Each number of the l" Messenger and Repiew " will contain 6l superroya octave pages, filled with the choicest matter, of great rariety-embracing Noeels, Iales, Poems, Iravels, Gta- tiqHcs, Rerieacs, History, Bioora-
 ply. Papers onHe Army, Na0y, And other National Affairs, and Discussions of all questions affecting the Rights Interests, and h. stitutons of the South and West.
 The subscription price will be $s5, but the work will contain very nearly twice as much matter as md bo ,,,,hl sboIi in, o1a ,i style, like the present Messenger.
 Those indebted to the Magazine. will please to make immediate payment. S7 90 will be taken in full for subscription due to Simms' Magazine, and for the @Messenger and Review" for 1916. $l0 will be taken in full for subscription to the Maga- zine, for a volume of the Messenger for 1915, and for the Messenger and Review for 1916. For S7 and 90 cents, volume of the Messenger for 1915, and the Messenger and Review for 1S16, will be furnished.
 REDUCTION OF POSTAGE. For the benefit of subscribers by mail the Mes senger and Review will be printed on the finest pa per, manufactured expressly for if, by which the postage will be greatly reduced, and the bound volume rendered far more convenient.
 The undersigned believes that the above arrange ment IS an suspicious one for Southern and Western Literature and Interests, and hopes to be adequate ly sustained and rewarded fer his efforts to main tain them.
 THE MESSENGER AND REVIEW FOR
 NOTHING.
 Whoever will send us new subscribers, witt SEQ, shall receive the Messenger and Review, grat is and in the same proportion for larger number of subscribers.
 Active and faithful Canvassers and Collectors will be employed Security will be required. Orders for the Messenger and Review will be sent in immediately, with the money, to the Mes. senger Office, Richmond, Va. It is indispensable to know how many copies to publish; and all whc 05- Those papers which insert this Prospectus few times, with or without Mr. Simms' letter and give it an Editorial notice, will be entitled tc the Messenger and Review, for one year.
 B. B MINOR, Editor
 and Proprietor. Richmond, Virginia, November, 1915.