Text: Anonymous, [Review of The Gift for 1843], Charleston Courier (Charleston, SC), vol. XL, whole no. 12,201, October 4, 1842, p. 2, col. 2

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The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. — The credit of issuing the first Annual for 1843 is due to Messrs. CAREY & HART, Philadelphia, and it is in every respect creditable to their establishment. It is enclosed in a substantinl [[substantial]] and elegant cover adorned with gold covering on a field of green; and its interior is beautified with numerous engravings of high finish, designed and executed by American artists, and illustrating the contributions of American authors. “MERCY'S DREAM,” illustrative of a Passage in BUNYAN'S Pilgrim's Progress, is an exquisite delineation; SULLY'S LACE CAP is a charming portraiture of womanly beauty and INMAN'S NEWS BOY true to life. The literary matter possesses much interest and merit and is presented to the reader in a neat typographical dress. “Chances and Changes, or a Clerical Wooing,” by the author of “A New Home,” unites the charms of humor and simplicity, and gives a curious insight into the mode of supplying parsons with wives in the land of steady habits; “Billy Snub, the News Boy” will be read with interest and instruction by the young; “The Sudden and Sharp Doom” is a sketch at once graphic and thrilling; “The Pit and the Pendulum” a scene of exciting and appalling interest in the dungeons of the inquisition, by EDGAR A. POE; and “The Last Wager, or the Gamester of the Mississippi,” a wild story of the South-West, bu SIMMS, in which the author displays a high degree of artistical skill in dealing with improbabilities as with familiar things. The poetry is pleasing; and among the lady contributors to it is Miss M. E. LEE, of this city. We are indebted to Mr. W. H. Berrett for this elegant volume, and commend it as a very suitable pledge of affection or reward of merit, for the opening year.