Business having called us to Williamsburg, we took orcasion to be present at the closing exercises of William and Mary College, on the 3rd and 5th of July. Of these, and of the appointment of Dr. Francis L. Hawkes, of New Orleans, as President, we had prepared a brief account, accompanied with a few thoughts relating to "our Colleges in Virginia,"-all of whom we wish unbounded

The orator must be familiar without vulgarity, original without eccentricity, natural and yet highly artistic,-in apparent carelessness "snatching a grace beyond the reach of art,"-fluent in language, but elaborate in thought, speaking at once to the instincts that are most profound, as well as those that are most superficial. Ordinarily, Hen-prosperity. ry's style was the natural current of his thought But all that we had written has been excluded by the and glided along in limpid, glowing abundance, as ber; and we have only room for the following brief memonecessary arrangement of the matter of the present numif it reflected the still beams of the sun. But when rials of two whose loss has left an irreparable void in the some exciting crisis occurred, his speech became spheres which they, adorned, and whose pens have given impetuous and rugged with scythes and daggers, value and dignity, grace and beauty to the pages of the like a Saxon war-chariot; then his livid bolts shot off in every direction with the concussion of lightnings which in the same instant shine and kill. He drew the great masses of mankind closely around him by the exaltation of his sentiments; he held them still more enthralled by the simplicity of his language.

Messenger.

THE LATE PRESIDENT DEW.

At a meeting of "the Society of Alumni of William and Mary College," held on Monday, the 5th day of July, 1847, the Society by Prof. Saunders, (Chairman of a Committee the following preamble and resolutions were reported to

to draft a preamble and resolutions expressive of the feelings of the Society for the loss of Thomas R Dew, its

"Since the last meeting of this Society it hath pleased

The April shower is grateful to the soft herbage and the still snow falls gracefully to earth, but nei-late President,) and unanimously adopted. ther of these produce strong impressions on the beholder. On the contrary, when rugged clouds, an all-wise Providence to remove from this life, Thomas fringed with electric fires and buffeted by terrific winds, pour down piercing hail and torrent rain, intermingled with thunders that shake the skies and astound the earth, then do men tremble unbidden in the presence of natural sublimity.

Tradition and history speak in rapturous terms of Patrick Henry's eloquence, and some of his speeches reported by cotemporaries substantiate his fame. But as well might one attempt to paint lightning with charcoal, as to delineate a soul like his in dull words. In order properly to appreciate his power, we

-"Should have seen him in the Campus Martius,-
In the tribunal,-shaking all the tribes
With mighty speech. His words seemed oracles,
That pierced their bosoms; and each man would turn,
And gaze in wonder on his neighbor's face,

That with the like dumb wonder answer'd him :
Then some would weep, some shout, some, deeper touch'd,
Keep down the cry with motion of their hands,
In fear but to have lost a syllable.”

R. Dew, its late distinguished President, and at the same time President of William and Mary College; and it being equally becoming in itself and grateful to our feelings to express in a formal manner our respect for his memory and our regret for his loss, be it therefore

Resolved, That by the death of President Dew, this Society was deprived of an eminent and efficient head, and its individual members of a cherished associate and friend.

2. Resolved, That in him, this College lost an able, a faithful and a dignified Professor-his Country a loyal citi izen, a pure Statesman and a profound philosopher, and was difficult to decide whether was most to be admired Society a true, kind and courteous gentleman: in whom it the expansion of his mind, the extent of his information, the rectitude of his purpose, the simplicity of his manners, or the goodness of his heart."

On motion of Prof. Millington, it was ordered that the
Editor of the Southern Literary Messenger be requested
to publish the foregoing preamble and resolutions.
Ro. SAUNDERS, President.

W. S. PEACHY, Secretary.

DIED—June 3rd., of Consumption, Mrs. JANE TAYLOE WORTHINGTON, wife of Dr. Francis A. Worthington, of this city.

The deceased was a daughter of the late Major Lomax of the U. S. Army, and formerly of Virginia.

We should have seen him when he knew that he spoke under the shadow of the scaffold,-when She was known to the public as a frequent and graceful British cannon were booming in the north, and, writer for the Southern Literary Messenger and other pe standing in the outlawed assembly of Virginia, like riodicals, in each of which she was distinguished both as a a lion at bay, he caught the first cry of distress writer of Prose and Verse. With a highly cultivated Infrom Lexington and Bunker Hill, -with a gener-tellect, and delicate Taste, she was qualified not only to ous devotion that made no reserve and knew no adorn, but to soften and purify our native Literature. fear, with a voice solemn, tremulous with patri- ter-she was no less worthy in all the qualities which con Accomplished in mind-and fitted to be useful as a wriotic rage, and swelling over the thrilled audience stitute a Christian lady. Refined in manners-sensitive like a trumpet-call to arms, and with an eye flash-in feelings-alive to all the proprieties of life-and atten ing unutterable fire, he exclaimed-" Give me lib-tive to the minutest duties-she was unselfish in conduct, and full of kindness towards others. Gradually wasting erty, or give me death!" she was yet resigned—and, at the last hour, peace. fully glided from the presence of Earth, as we trust, to the brightness of Heaven.-Cincinnati Chronicle.

Cincinnati, Ohio.

E. L. M.

away,

1847.]

MESSENGER AND REVIEW-COVER.

NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.

Though the necessary arrangement of the matter of the present number has driven our acknowledgment of new works to the cover, yet there are some too well entitled to our readers' patronage and attention to be neglected.

To Harper & Brothers, we are indebted for the following:

swine, with directions for salting pork and curing bacon and hams," also parts in continuation of Dombey & Son, by Dickens:-also Cæsar's Commentary "De Bello Gallico," being one of Schmitz Zumpt's classical series. With a map, notes and geographical index.

These are for sale by Nash & Woodhouse.

B. & Co. have a long catalogue of standard, educational and other works, with recommendatory notices.

Drinker & Morris, agents, have from L. & B. the July number of Hays' Quarterly Journal of Medical Sciences, one of the most valuable journals devoted to medicine.

Buller & Co., Phil., have sent us "A Critical Corrector of the Common Errors of Speech," which 1. Howitt's Homes and Haunts of the most emi- contains nearly two thousand barbarisms, cant nent English Poets. This work is comprised in phrases, errors and inelegances too frequently to two neat volumes, the greater part of whose con- be met with even in the conversation of the edutents are agreeable and pleasant reading. In poe-cated and well-informed. Such a work may be detry, W. Howitt seems to have a very catholic taste fective and yet of infinite service in promoting eleand most unbounded charity. His style is neither gance and accuracy of speech. correct, elegant, nor forcible; and he exhibits very little more than surface knowledge. Had he strictly confined himself to the Poets' "homes and haunts," these volumes would have been meagre and dull. The most pleasant portions are rather biographical, though he makes his professed object of describing only the most noted and interesting scenes and localities connected with their lives and writings his excuse for not entering farther into their memoirs. Of course, biography had to be interwoven with his descriptions, and in some of the sketches, as in that of Cowper, he has properly and judiciously made the poet "live and move" among his favorite haunts. But in other cases, as that of Chatterton, what would the sketch be without the memoir which it contains? As a whole, then, the work is only mediocre, and less graphic and animated than the author's "visits to remarkable places." We think he has indulged his spleen Life and Correspondence of Joseph Reed, by his unnecessarily towards the Tiges of Ireland. grandson, William B. Reed. 2 vols. 8vo. LindOther volumes are to follow with sketches of the say & Blakiston, Phil., 1847. Mr. Reed was the Homes and Haunts of the Dramatic Poets; though military secretary of Washington, at Cambridge; the Poems of Shakspeare and other dramatists adjutant general of the continental army; member are made the ground of embracing them in the of the Congress of the U. S., and President of the Executive Council of Pennsylvania. The work is present gallery. The work is handsomely pub-composed chiefly of the correspondence of many lished, and contains numerous illustrations engraved by H. W. Hewett.

"Orators of the Revolution" is a small neat volume from Cincinnati, containing sketches of the eloquence of the Colonial and Revolutionary Times, delivered before the New England Society of the Queen City of the west, by our former townsman, the Rev. E. L. Magoon, and published by the request of that society. The paper on Patrick Henry in the present number is an enlarged sketch in the same spirit and from the same pen.

Another work relating to our Revolutionary era is the

distinguished characters during and after the Revolution; connected, explained and illustrated by the author and editor. We like the frank avowal of the honorable motives which actuated him in the execution of his work; and have read considerable portions of it with great pleasure. Though it does not seem to possess any peculiar claim to merit as a biography, yet it is a valuable accession to our Revolutionary and State Histories; and has been produced with patience, caution and industry. Our thanks to the author and publishers for a copy,through J. W. Randolph & Co., who have it for sale.

Various New periodicals of the sounder sort occupy our table. Silliman's Journal; The Charleston Journal of Medicine; The Southern Quarterly Review, filled with more variety than usual and equal ability; De Bow's Commercial Review; The North American Review; Leonard Scott & Co's

Republications of the English Reviews, from the agents, Nash & Woodhouse,-have been by us often commended to public favor and patronage.

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May 1st, 1847.

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BENJAMIN B. MINOR,

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UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND.

Faculty of Physic. Session of 1847-48. The Lectures will come mence on Monday, October 25th, and continue until the 1st of March ensuing.

Richard Wilmot Hall, M. D., Obstetrics and Medical Jurisprudence.

William E. A. Aikin, M. D., Chemistry and Pharmacy.

Nathan R. Smith, M. D., Surgery.

Samuel Chew, M. D., Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Hygiene.

Joseph Roby, M. D., Anatomy and Physiology.

William Power, M. D., Theory and Practice of Medicine.

George W. Miltenberger, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.

Instruction in Clinical Medicine and Clinical Surgery, will be given every day at the Baltimore Infirmary, opposite the Medical College.

Fees for the entire course, $90. Matriculation fee, $5. Graduation fee, $20. Clinical ticket, free. Dissecting ticket, optional with the students.

Baltimore, July 1, 1847.-4t

WM. E. A. AIKIN, M. D., Dean of the Faculty.

WM. MACFARLANE & JOHN W. FERGUSSON,

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