The subjoined advertisement, which appeared, we believe, in the
Lynchburg Virginian some time since, escaped our notice until recently.
We are gratified that the opinion expressed by a correspondent of the
"Messenger," in respect to the stanzas referred to, is sustained in so
_substantial_ a manner. We feel authorized to say that the name of the
author can be communicated by us if desired.
"The author of the piece which appeared in the Southern Literary
Messenger, recently, commencing--
'I'd offer thee this heart of mine
If I could love the less,' &c. &c.
will receive a Gold Medal, by writing to 'W. B. T.' Lynchburg,
Virginia, and giving his name, which the writer of this notice wishes
to have engraved upon it."
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From Littel's Museum of Foreign Literature.
_Byron and Brougham_. It may not be generally known that the late Lord
Chancellor Brougham is the real author of the famous article in the
Edinburgh Review, on Byron's juvenile production "Hours of Idleness,"
for which Jeffrey was so severely taken to task in the satire "English
Bards and Scottish Reviewers." We have this fact from an authority on
which we can place the utmost reliance.
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