Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Notice of Notice of the 9th number of the Southern Literary Messenger, American and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Baltimore, MD), vol. LXXI, whole no. 12154, June 15, 1835, p. 2, middle of col. 3

The ninth number of the Southern literary Messenger has just reached us, and is upon the whole the best yet issued. It is the first made up entirely of original articles: we hope that in no future numbers will resort be had to selections: this dependence is allowable in the infancy of a periodical, but when it has grown up to vigorous strength, as the Messenger now has, it should rely upon its own resources.

Readers might be satisfied that they had their money's worth, if that be a consideration, if they read but one article in this number, the dissertation on the “Characteristic differences between the Sexes.” The subject is of course of the richest, and it is treated with power and beauty. There is a continuation of the interesting “Tripolitan Sketches.” We are pleased to note a spirited contribution from our townsman Edgar A. Poe, Esq. It is an extravaganza called “Lionizing,” and gives evidence of high powers of fancy and humor. The writer of the article on “Recent American Novels,” is, we think, wrong throughout, as well in his general opinions as in his particular commendation of “The Insurgents.” Among the literary notices is a good one of “Horse Shoe Robinson,” a work for which the public are eagerly looking, and for which we venture to predict universal popularity.