_Southern Literary Messenger_.--The publication of the second volume of this work commences with the present number for December. The work was commenced as an experiment to test the practicability of sustaining a literary work in the South. The experiment has been successful. The Messenger has taken a high stand as one of the first literary publications in our country. It has called into existence several gifted pens. It is now established on a permanent basis, and commences its second year with increasing prospects of success, and we hope will yield a fair remuneration to its enterprizing and worthy proprietor. In point of typographical execution it is unequalled by any similar work in the United States. _From the Boon's Lick Democrat_. We have received the Southern Literary Messenger, published monthly at Richmond, {137} Virginia, by Mr. Thomas W. White. It sustains well the high character of its previous numbers--and contains much valuable and entertaining matter. This periodical, the only successful Literary enterprise, we believe, in which southern genius is enlisted, has received showers of applause from all quarters--and indeed it richly merits them all. We recommend those of our friends, who are fond of this species of reading, to try the Messenger--they will find it better--far better than the trash that is circulated in most of the literary periodicals of the day. _From the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post_. _The Southern Literary Messenger_.--We have been furnished with the December number of this periodical, issued as the first number of the second volume. In typographical appearance it is neat and beautiful, and respecting the interesting character of its contents, it will not suffer by a comparison with any literary publication in the country. The leading original prose articles are, Sketches of the History and Condition of Tripoli, Extracts from my Mexican Journal, An Address on Education, The Wissahiccon, Lionel Granby, &c. The poetic articles are numerous, diversified and highly creditable to the talent of the South; and the editorial criticisms and reviews appear to be written in a spirit of candor quite unusual for the American Press. We commend the whole number to the attention of our literary friends, as possessing unusual interest. _From the Baltimore Atheneum_.