ABSTRACT
Charles Lee's Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department, can interest Virginia very little more than as she is a member of the confederacy. The field of competition is still open, and that Virginian will deserve the laurel crown who shall first celebrate the national deeds of which our State was the cradle, in that kind of melodious language which the muse of history is wont to inspire. The Virginians have hitherto been lovers of English literature, and it was perfectly natural that their taste should have taken this direction. Virginia has received, with a simile of approbation, all those works which have a reference to her own scenery, manners, or institutions. Among the bonds which are to hold together a constellation so imposing, the chain of a common language and literature will prove one of the strongest, and we believe that Virginia will be prompt to create a multitude of its firmest and brightest links.
