Text: Anonymous, “[Review of the Southern Literary Messenger for August 1835],” Daily National Intelligencer (Washington, DC), September 7, 1835

The twelfth number of Mr. White's Southern Literary Messenger has come to hand, and we feel great pleasure in being able to add our individual testimony to the numerous commendatory notices of the work which we see in the papers of the day. We presume no monthly journal in the country contains as large an amount of matter as the Messenger, and this matter, too, is all original, and, generally speaking, of a high order of excellence. A great many of the papers have hitherto been furnished by men whose names, were they publicly known, could not fail of establishing for the journal a reputation of no ordinary kind. We will subjoins a notice in detail of the principal articles in the present number.

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The next article in order is “Bon-Bon, a Tale,” by EDGAR A. POE. It is characterized by the quaint humor and eccentricity of which that gentleman's writings are usually remarkable, and by the antique lore, and happy talent for invention which distingush [[distinguish]] some of his other tales. Bon-Bon is a most philosophical restauranteur, and the Devil, who appears to him, the most gentlemanly of his race.

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