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. XVI. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. JNO. R. THOMPSON, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. Calhoun, John C. A few thoughts on the Death of. 376 Cannie of Clare, A Tale of Old Reading. Chancery, High Court of, Origin and History of the. Dedicated to the Hon. N. Beverly Tucker. Chapter on Rattlesnakes. By Charles Lanman. Chevalier Merlin, The. An Original Novel. Lines. Composed on the Sea Shore. Lines. Sent to a Lady with a bouquet. Lines. To a friend Inviting me to Town, Literary Enterprise. Lorgnette, The. Lord! Keep my Memory Green. By Mrs. Anna Peyre Dinnies. Lynch, Miss Anne C. Her Song for Jenny Lind. Madonna. By Susan Archer Talley. Maid of Congaree, The. By Hon. B. F. Porter. Mayo, Mrs, Abigail, of Belleville. Metacom of Montaup. By Wm. Gilmore Simms. Morell's Philosophy of the Nineteenth Century. Music Rhapsody, A. By Charles Lanman. Old Bachelor, The. To Mrs. L. G. R. on her Marriage. By Jno. R. Rouge et Noir. Rydal Mount. 483-649-720 137 266 619 1. Our Foreign Policy. Mr. Trescot's pamphlet→→ Change effected in our foreign relations by the settlement of Oregon and the acquisition of Cali- fornia-the question of the non-extension of the European political system to this continent-- the Balance of Power:-Policy of our Govern- ment as regards the Asiatic Trade, &c., &c. 2. William Beckford and the Literature of Travel. By Henry T. Tuckerman. Philosophy of travel- the author of Vathek as a tourist: requisites, moral and physical, of the instructive writer of travels-Romance of travel-Childe Harold- Failure of Dickens in his "American Notes" and "Pictures from Italy"-the poet Rogers and his versified Italian diary-peculiar adaptation of the American character to observe with judgment |