Floral festivals and music, Or the promenading concert, Lent a pleasing variation. Or a serenade by moonlight, Or a picnic, or band-meeting, (It was Landram's skillful "Saxhorn,") Or the famed association, Called the Literary Circle, Where was wit, and sense, and humor, Where were readers and were critics, Where were essays and selections, In the style of choice belles-lettres. And the weekly local paper, In the year of fifty-seven. Tells the story of the changes, Tells the story of the pleasures, Notes the firmer grasp of fashion, Notes the new, intruding customs. 'Tis the "Sentinel" presiding O'er the city's daily doings, The "American Sentinel" watching All the curious innovations. And the interesting columns Show contributors in numbers,-- Many writers of the city Furnished items and productions. Roscius, Citizen, and Alma, Ida, Claude, and Regulator, Many signatures unnoted, Many noms de plume forgotten, Filled the sheet with spicy reading, With discussion, fact, and fancy, Prose and poetry and fiction, Rhyme and riddle and acrostic, All the sorrows and the blessings, All misfortunes and successes, All the city's daily doings. And the moons were waxing, waning, As the cycle brought its changes. [4]George W. Dunlap, Jr., purchased this Institute in 1874, and established a graded school for young ladies. CANTO X. 1861-1865. CIVIL WAR.