Text: Lewis Gaylord Clark, “[Review of the American Review for February 1845],” Knickerbocker (New York, NY), vol. XXV, no. 3, March 1845, p. 282

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THE second number of ‘The American Review and Whig Journal,’ devoted to politics, science, literature and art, has made its appearance. The very best thing in its pages is an unique, singularly imaginative, and most musical effusion, entitled ‘The Raven,’ We have never before, to our knowledge, met the author, Mr. EDGAR A. POE, as a poet; but if the poem to which we allude be a specimen of his powers in this kind, we shall always be glad to welcome him in his new department. We skipped the elaborate ‘Result of the Election,’ the fifty-four columns on ‘ Alison's History of Europe,’ (a work which has been ‘subject to treatment’ for several months in foreign and native reviews and magazines,) and the long story of ‘Jack Long,’ which we had read under another title in the ‘Democratic Review,’ where it appears, by an unforeseen circumstance; but we did peruse the paper on ‘Words,’ and that on ‘GOETHE'S Egmont,’ with unusual pleasure. We hope that the article on ‘Post-Office Reform,’ notwithstanding its length, may find numerous readers; for it treats of a subject which deserves both special and general consideration. Six editorial pages are devoted to brief ‘ Critical Notices’ and a record of ‘Foreign Literary Miscellany.’ The ‘ Review’ looks well, and promises to be well sustained, as indeed it should be, by the great political party to whose interests it is devoted. We wish our young contemporary all success. Macte Virtute!