Text: Anonymous, “[Comment on Poe's Tales],” New-Orleans Bee (New Orleans, LA), vol. XVIII, whole no. 4876, August 2, 1845, p. 1, col. 2

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NEW WORKS. — We are indebted to the publishers, through the politeness of J. B. Steel, No. 14 Camp Street, for No. XII of Wiley and Putnam's Library of choice reading, containing Hazlitt's Age of Elizabeth — a most delightful work, which has long enjoyed a standard reputation as one of the most discriminating criticisms on the Literature of the Elizabethan age which we possess.

We likewise acknowledge the receipt of Nos. 1, 2 and 3 of Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books, embracing. “The Journal of an African Cruiser,” edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the most charming writers of New England; “Tales by Edgar A Poe” — a book distinguished by some merit, and imagination, yet distorted by affectation and extravagance of style, thought and incident; and “Headley's Letters from Italy,” which are racy, vivid and poetical.