Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), April 5, 1845, vol. 1, no. 14, p. ???-???

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THE PALAIS ROYAL. A Historical Romance. By John H. Mancur, author of” Henri Quatre,” &c. New York: Wm. H. Colyer.

SOME of Mr. Mancur's novels have been very naturally mistaken for those of James, to whom, both in manner and in his material generally, he bears even too remarkable a resemblance. “The Palais Royal” is founded upon events in the lives of Mazarin and De Retz, and is a novel of far more than ordinary interest and value. Its great defect is the total lack of originality.