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

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KEEPING HOUSE AND HOUSE-KEEPING. A Story of Domestic Life. Edited by Mrs. S. J. Hale. New York. Harper & Brothers.

This is an ingeniously conceived and well managed narrative of ordinary life — without any tiling of that pure namby-pamby, or rather pure drivel which we have been ashamed to see applauded, of late days, on the ground, forsooth, of being natural or truthful. Mrs. Hale is a woman of great force of thought and remarkable purity of style. She writes invariably well.