Text: Anonymous, “[Review of Poe's Prose Romances],” Daily Forum (Philadelphia, PA), July 20, 1843, p. 3, col. 6

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Prose Romances of E. A. Poe. — Mr. Graham[,] No. 98 Chesnut street, has commenced a uniform serial edition of Edgar A. Poe's Prose Romances, the first number of which is now before the public. We are pleased to have this opportunity of expressing our general admiration of Mr. P's writings, and although we cannot see the merit of the “Gold Bug,” and esteem it entirely unworthy of his name and reputation, still every oyster we know does not contain a pearl. The tales in the present number are the “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and the “Man that was used up;” — differing as they do most essentially in style, they evince the varied powers of the author, and the facility with which he travels “from grave to gay.”