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                  Introduction
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                  Poems by William Cullen Bryant [[Not by Poe]]  | 
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                 1  | 
              
              
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                  Confessions of a Poet [[Laughton Osborn]]  | 
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                 2  | 
              
              
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                  Horse-Shoe Robinson [[J. P. Kennedy]]  | 
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                 4  | 
              
              
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                  I Promessi Sposi, or the Betrothed Lovers [[A. Manzoni, translated by
                  G. W. Featherstonhaugh]] [[Not by Poe]]  | 
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                 12  | 
              
              
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                  Journal — by Frances Anne Butler
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                 19  | 
              
              
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                  The Infidel, or the Fall of Mexico [[R. M. Bird]] [[Not by Poe]]  | 
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                 32  | 
              
              
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                  The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de Soto [[T. Irving]] [[Not by
                  Poe]]  | 
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                 37  | 
              
              
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                  The Crayon Miscellany, No. II, containing Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
                  [[W. Irving]] [[Not by Poe]]  | 
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                 40  | 
              
              
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                  Mephistopheles in England, or the Confessions of a Prime Minister [[R.
                  F. Williams]]  | 
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                 42  | 
              
              
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                  The Classical Family Library [[Euripidies, translated by Rev. R.
                  Potter]]  | 
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                 43  | 
              
              
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                  The Early Naval History of England [[J. F. Cooper]]  | 
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                 48  | 
              
              
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                  The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1836 [[Annual,
                  edited by Miss E. Leslie]]  | 
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                 50  | 
              
              
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                  Norman Leslie [[Theodore S. Fay]]  | 
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                 51  | 
              
              
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                  The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow [[R. M. Bird]]  | 
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                 63  | 
              
              
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                  Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry [[edited by Lady B. Dacre]]  | 
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                 74  | 
              
              
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                  The Heroine: of Adventures of Cherubina [[Eaton Stannard Barrett]]  | 
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                 76  | 
              
              
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                  The Edinburgh Review [[magazine]]  | 
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                 82  | 
              
              
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                  Nuts to Crack [[R. Gooch]]  | 
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                 90  | 
              
              
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                  The Crayon Miscellany [[W. Irving]]  | 
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                 91  | 
              
              
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                  Lives of the Necromancers [[W. Godwin]]  | 
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                 92  | 
              
              
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                  The Linwoods [[C. M. Sedgwick]]  | 
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                 94  | 
              
              
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                  A Memoir of the Reverend John H. Rice, D. D. [[W. Maxwell]]  | 
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                 101  | 
              
              
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                  Oration on the Life and Character of the Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D. D.
                  [[W. Anderson]]  | 
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                 102  | 
              
              
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                  A Life of George Washington, in Latin Prose [[F. Glass]]  | 
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                 103  | 
              
              
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                  Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West [[J. Hall]]  | 
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                 108  | 
              
              
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                  Clinton Bradshaw, or the Adventures of a Lawyer [[F. W. Thomas]]  | 
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                 109  | 
              
              
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                  The Rambler in North America, 1832-1833 [[C. J. Latrobe]]  | 
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                 111  | 
              
              
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                  Judge Story's Discourse on Chief-Justice Marshall [[possibly not
                  by Poe]]  | 
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                 114  | 
              
              
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                  Binney's Eulogium [[H. W. Binney]] [[possibly not by Poe]]  | 
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                 114  | 
              
              
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                  Inaugural Address of the Rev. D. L. Carroll, D. D.
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                 116  | 
              
              
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                  Traits of American Life [[Mrs. S. J. Hale]]  | 
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                 117  | 
              
              
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                  An Address on Education [[L. Minor]]  | 
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                 118  | 
              
              
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                  Legends of a Log-Cabin [[C. R. Gilman]]  | 
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                 120  | 
              
              
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                  Zinzendorff and Other Poems [[L. H. Sigourney]]  | 
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                 122  | 
              
              
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                  Poems — by Miss H. F. Gould
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                 122  | 
              
              
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                  Poems: Translated and Original [[E. F. Ellet]]  | 
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                 122  | 
              
              
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                  The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution [[W. G. Simms]]  | 
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                 143  | 
              
              
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                  The Young Wife's Book [[T. S. Arthur]]  | 
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                 158  | 
              
              
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                  Tales and Sketches [[C. M. Sedgwick]]  | 
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                 160  | 
              
              
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                  Reminiscences of an Intercourse with Mr. Niebuhr, the Historian [[F.
                  Lieber]]  | 
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                 162  | 
              
              
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                  The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [[D. Defoe]]  | 
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                 169  | 
              
              
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                  The Poetry of Life [[S. Stickney]]  | 
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                 173  | 
              
              
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                  The Christian Florist [[Anonymous]]  | 
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                 177  | 
              
              
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                  Paul Ulric: or the Adventures of an Enthusiast [[M. Mattson]]  | 
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                 178  | 
              
              
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                  Animal and Vegetable Physiology [[P. M. Roget]]  | 
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                 206  | 
              
              
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                  A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia [[J. Martin]]  | 
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                 211  | 
              
              
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                  The American in England [[Alexander Slidell]]  | 
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                 214  | 
              
              
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                  Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes [[E. Bulwer]]  | 
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                 222  | 
              
              
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                  Conti the Discarded [[H. F. Chorley]]  | 
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                 229  | 
              
              
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                  The Confessions of Emilia Harrington [[L. A. Wilmer]]  | 
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                 234  | 
              
              
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                  The Noble Deeds of Woman [[E. Starling]]  | 
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                 238  | 
              
              
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                  Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America
                    — Virginia [[F. L. Hawks]]  | 
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                 239  | 
              
              
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                  Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology [[Mrs. L. Miles]]  | 
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                 252  | 
              
              
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                  Mahmoud [[Constantinople and Its Environs]] [[D. Porter]]  | 
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                 256  | 
              
              
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                  Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, etc. [[A. B. Longstreet]]  | 
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                 257  | 
              
              
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                  Slavery in the United States [[J. K. Paulding]] [[Not by Poe]]  | 
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                 265  | 
              
              
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                  The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists [[W.
                  Drayton]] [[Not by Poe]]  | 
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                 265  | 
              
              
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                  The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems [[J. R. Drake]]  | 
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                 275  | 
              
              
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                  Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems [[F. G. Halleck]]  | 
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                 275  | 
              
              
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                  Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau [[Sir F. B. Head]]  | 
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                 319  | 
              
              
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                  Walsh's Didactics [[R. Walsh]]  | 
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                 321  | 
              
              
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                  Appendix: Poe's Reply to his Critics
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                 331  |