Text: Anonymous, “[Review of the Southern Literary Messenger for December 1835],” Charleston Courier (Charleston, SC), vol. XXXIII, whole no. 11,349, December 9, 1835, p. 2, col. 2

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The Southern Literary Messenger. — After an interval of several months, a species of literary interdict by the way, which we did not much relish, we are able to announce the welcome reception of the December number of this excellent and eminently successful periodical, commencing its second volume and the second year of its bright and promising existence. The State of Virginia has reason to be proud of it, as a valuable exhibition of her mental prowess — it has gathered the stars of her intellectual firmament into close and brilliant constellation, and with their blended light burnished her literary fame. But while collecting into a focus the rays of [[the]] Southern mind, the Aurora Borealis of genius has been no stranger to its pages, and its intellectual gems have been freely gathered from other portions of the republic of letters. Among its contributors, EDGAR A. POE, equally ripe in graphic humour and various lore, seems by common consent, to have been awarded the laurel, and in the number before us, fully sustaining the reputation of its predecessors, will be found proofs of his distinguished merit.