Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), March 22, 1845, vol. 1, no. 12, p. ???-???

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THE SATURDAY EMPORIUM. — There is an excellent weekly paper with this title published in New York, by Ward & Co., of Ann street. It so happens we have never seen more than three numbers of it, the last of which contained an imputation upon our editorial honesty, which we felt bound to answer; and being struck with the generally agreeable tone of its articles, its enormous size, and neat appearance, we took that occasion to state the same to our friend, the public. It so happened also that we had just read a paragraph which has been pretty generally circulated the last three mouths, informing the poor that a sheet of brown paper would make a warmer coverlid lore bed than an ordinary rose blanket; and it seemed to us that a poor family could not do a better thing this cold weather, than to provide themselves with a paper for a sixpence, which would answer the double purpose of a “quilt by night, a library by day,” which we said.

It appears that the Emporium regards this as a doubtful compliment, but it appears to us that we could not have paid it a more unequivocal one. However, the Emporium says it prefers the calumet of peace, to the tomahawk of war. Very good. Then put this in your pipe and smoke it: and when you copy any thing from our columns again, have the kindness to give us credit for it.