Text: Anonymous, “[Review of Poe's Tales],” National Magazine and Industrial Record (New York, NY), vol. I, no. 2, July 1845, p. 194

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Wiley & Putnam's Library of American Books.

We are much pleased to see a series of books of this nature in progress of dissemination, for there is surely no mode better calculated to encourage our infant literature. We observe that No. 1 contains the journal of an African cruiser; No. 2, tales of Edgar A. Poe; and No. 3, Letters from Italy, by J. T. Headley. No better proof is required than these three titles, of the encouragement given to our young men to treasure up and impart the knowledge acquired by foreign travel and reflection. We have neither time nor space for an extended notice of these several volumes, but from what we have read of them, we can conscientiously recommend them to general favour; as well as for the reasons already stated.