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

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NEW ORLEANS AS I FOUND IT. By H. Mime.. New York; Harper and Brothers.

This is the title of one of the freshest, most piquant, and altogether most agreeable volumes which have been written by an American — for an American we take the author to be: — the name given is a pseudonym, of course. Professedly, his design is that of sketching some incidents of a first visit to New Orleans in the winter of 1835-36; but these incidents are in fact but a nucleus for very amusing gossip of all kinds, intermingled not unfrequently with some matter of [page 211:] far loftier pretension than gossip. The book is that of a thoughtful, polished and well-informed man. We are promised a continuation.