Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), March 15, 1845, vol. 1, no. 11, p. ???-???

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Cruikshank's Omnibus, with numerous illustrations. Philadelphia: E. Ferrett & Co. For sale by W. H. Graham, 162 Nassau st.

The purchaser of this little volume will be sure to get the worth of his money. Although Cruikshank's name is very nearly a synonym for fun, yet his designs are not pure fun, for like the works of genius, they are tinged with a dash of melancholy. One could weep almost as readily as laugh at some of his most humorous sketches.