THE SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER; DEVOTED TO EVERY DEPARTMENT OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. Au gré de nos desirs bien plus qu'au grés des vents. Crebillon's Electre. As we will; and not as the winds will. VOL. XXIV. NEW SERIES, VOL. III. JANUARY TO JULY-1857. JOHN R. THOMPSON, EDITOR. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA MACFARLANE, FERGUSSON & CO., PROPRIETORS. 1857. |