Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), “Literary” (A), from the Weekly Mirror (New York), December 14, 1844, vol. 1, no. 10, p. 146, col. 3

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LITERARY.

THIRLWALL’S HISTORY OF GREECE, now publishing by Harper & Brothers. — We are highly pleased to see this work in the course of re-publication. Greece is a land of which we can never know enough. In all that relates to intellectual and social culture, this delightful people seem to have been the peculiar favorites of Providence. For pictures of grace, beauty and loveliness, the mind, after roving over the various regions of the earth, finds nothing like Southern Greece, the Archipelago, and the shores of Asia Minor. This region is the native home of poetry and music — of painting, and sculpture, and architecture, and the chosen seat of oratory and philosophy. We are delighted with every thing that makes us, and our countrymen, better acquainted with this favored land; and we know no work we should sooner recommend for this purpose, than Thirlwall's History of Greece. We could wish to afford better print; but in these days it seems necessary to leave for the rich the old luxury of “a rivulet of text, meandering through a meadow of margin.”