Text: Anonymous, [Review of Southern Literary Messenger for February], Daily Commercial Advertiser (Buffalo, NY), vol. III, no. 71, whole no. 689, March 25, 1837, p. 2., col. 2

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SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER. — The February number of this periodical has been lying on our table for some days. The number contains about forty original articles, many of which are first rate. The principle papers are an address delivered before the Virginia Historical and Philosophical Society, by T. W. Gilmer; Passages from the papers of the late George Lepner; the continuation of Arthur Gordon Pym, by E. A. Poe. Mr. P. has worked up his incidents with great power and effect; some parts will remind the reader of the highly wrought tales which appeared in Blackwood some 15 or 18 years ago. The notes and anecdotes relative to Napoleon are very interesting; an extract will be found in another column. Mrs[[.]] Ellet and Mrs. Sigourney have both contributed articles. The Messenger has among its contributors some of the ablest writers in the country, and we would heartily commend it to the public, as one of the best periodicals of the day.