Text: Anonymous, [Review of the Southern Literary Messenger for August], Charleston Daily Courier (Charleston, SC), September 8, 1836, vol. XXXV, whole no. 11,565, p. 2, col. 2

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The Southern Literary Messenger. — J. [[T.]] W. WHITE, Richmond. — We have received the August number of this excellent literary Journal, to which the “Old Dominion” gives, without stint, a brilliant, intellectual, and a well-merited pecuniary support. The number before us glitters with a galaxy of bright things and bright names. Articles from ROBT. GREENHOW, Judge JOS. HOPKINSON, Dr. FRANCIS LIEBER, PAULDING, SLIDELL, Major HENRY LEE, (“The Battle of Lodi,” from a forthcoming “Life of NAPOLEON.) SIMMS, MATTHEW CAREY, JAMES M. GARNETT, Mrs. HALE, and EDGAR A. POE, its gifted and versatile editor, together with MMS. of JOHN RANDOLPH, of Roanoke, and other attractions, grave and diversity in its pages The critical notices in this periodical are very numerous, and evince generally great critical discrimination, although we think that in seeking to avoid the common fault of heaping indiscriminate and injudicious praise on books of American parentage, there is sometimes a degree of harshness, bordering on disparagement.