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

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Messrs. Wiley and Putnam have announced a series of Minor Classics, something in the way of Dove's Classics, etc.; the aim, however, as regards externals, being to reconcile the utmost possible cheapness, with a proper attention to the mechanical execution. The series will be entitled, “Wiley and Putnam's Library of Choice Reading,” and will be issued rapidly, at convenient intervals, in a novel and agreeable book form. Each volume will include the matter of an ordinary English octavo, and will be sold at three shillings. The works published will be new or old, drawn either from the best contemporary writers, or from the antique “well of English undefiled.” A very important, and to our minds the most interesting branch of the undertaking, will be an American Copyright Series. The “Library” will open, in a few days, with Eothen; Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch; and Undine with Sintrim and His Companions. Perhaps the first of the American Series will be Headley's “Letters from Italy,” of which only a fourth mut has been as yet published. We may expect this in April. The motto of the “Library” is from Lamb — “Books which are books.” The editorial conduct of the whole is entrusted to a gentleman whose fine taste and great ability are matters not to be questioned.

Farmer and Daggers have republished Mrs. Gore's very piquant novel “Cecil, or the Adventures of a Coxcomb.” (pp. 24.) Jones and Welsh, 104 Nassau-street.

☞ BISHOP HORNE’S COMMENTARY ON THE PSALM, with an Introductory Essay by Rev. Edward Irving, and a Memoir of the Life of the Author, has been published by Robert Carter, 58 Canal-st. The work enjoys a high reputation and cannot fail of a hearty welcome in the religious community. The introductory essay is in Irving's best style; and contains some rich veins of thought and eloquence of a high order. It is a fine, large, well-printed octavo, and is sold at the low price of a dollar and a half.

PHIL PURCEL, and other stories of Ireland, by William Carleton. — William Carleton, as every body knows who has read his stories, feels [page 175:] to his inmost heart, the genuine traits of Irish humor, not only feels, but can reproduce them in fiction. How much we all owe “ould Ireland,” for her inimitable fun, half laughter and half pathos, the humor of light and shade, ever hearty, frank, and native! The names of the stories in this book, “Ned M’Keown,” Shane Fadh's Wedding,” “Lary M’Farland's Wake,” &c., show that the book is genuine. Published by Wm. H. Graham, 162 Nassau street.

Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway, have just published “a Tale of Trials, told to my children, by Mrs. Opie,” in a form which combines elegance with cheapness.