Text: Anonymous, “[Comment on Poe's Tales],” Daily Picayune (New Orleans, LA), vol. IX, no. 161, August 2, 1845, p. 2, col. 1

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☞ We have received from Messrs. Wiley Putnam, the New York publishers, three numbers of their “Library of American Books.” The first is the “Journal of an African Cruiser,” giving sketches of the most. interesting islands off the North-West Coast of Africa, and of the ‘settlements made in Africa by the Americans and English. The work is edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne, who, perhaps, ranks as the purest prose writer in the country. No. 2 consists of a selection from the numerous masterly tales contributed to periodical literature by Edgar A. Poe, the accomplished editor of the Broadway Journal. No. 3 contains J. T. Headley's “Letters from Italy.” We read many of them when first published in the newspapers. They were very graphic and interesting. The same publishers have sent us the 13th number of their “Library of Choice Reading,” being “The Age of Elizabeth,” by Hazlitt — a charming book. Thus far the selections for this Library have been admirable.

All the above works are for sale at Mr. J. B. Steel's, No. 14 Camp street.