Text: Anonymous, “[Review of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for May 1840],” Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), vol. XXVIII, whole no. 8496, May 8, 1840, p. 4, col. 4

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BURTON'S GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. — The May number of this work has been handed to us by Mr. HAMPTON (the agent) who will have it delivered at the low price of $3 per annum. A beautiful steel portrait engraving of WM. CULLEN BRYANT adorns the book, and a notice of this celebrated poet from the pen of Edgar A. Poe forms the leading article. The “Journal of Julius Rodman” is continued in this number. The “Boatman's Measure Song” is a good ballad. The “Philosophy of Furniture,” by Edgar A. Poe, should be read by every housekeeper at least. “Theodoric of the Amali,” by the author of Mary of Castle Pinkney, is good like all the rest, and “Religious Conceit,” by Robert Mildred, is a short by well-drawn picture. “Columbus, an historical poem,” is as good as it is long. Charles West Thompson's lines to Ross are very neat. Burton's “Peep from a College Window” is almost “a Convention” of the ghosts of great men that once lived, and interesting of course. Then there is a chapter on science, as well as many other things.