Text: Anonymous, “[Notice of Graham's Magazine for October],” Brother Jonathan (New York, NY), vol. III, no. 6, October 8, 1842, p. 168, col. 1

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GRAHAM'S MAGAZINE, October. New York, Israel Post.

The engravings in this number are: The Blessing, on steel, by E. G. Dunning, from a pretence by T. Webster, and the Playful Pets, a mezzotint, by Sartain, from a pretence by W. Drummond. Music — a popular German air. Among the contributors we find Cooper, Bryant, Longfellow, Hoffman, Fay, Mrs. Stephens, Mrs. Clavers, Mrs. Embury and Mrs. Seba Smith. Mr. Griswold contributes a very interesting paper on Revolutionary Ballads. We are sorry to find a very unjust attack by Mr. Poe upon Mr. Dawes's poetry in the number. Mr. Dawes was not present at the reading of his play to a circle of critics, before its publication — and therefore he certainly did not read it to them, as Mr. Poe takes pains once or twice to say. As to the rest, whatever may be the faults of Mr. Dawes's verse, that poem is not yet written which could not be picked to pieces in the same style that Mr. Poe has done this.