Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), May 3, 1845, vol. 1, no. 18, p. ???-???

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American Facts. Notes and Statistics relative to the government, resources, engagements, &c. &c &c. of the United States of America. By George Palmer Putnam, member of the New York Historical Society; Hon. Mem. of the Connecticut Hist. Soc., Hon. Secretary of the American Art-Union; Author of an introduction to history, &c. With portraits and a map. London and New York. Wiley and Putnam.

A handsome volume of nearly three hundred pages, containing a large amount of statistics. well calculated to enlighten English readers in respect to tins country. We cannot understand the motive of the author in affixing to a work of this kind such a ponderous joke as the absurd review of British poets which appeared in the North American Review a year ago. It cannot surely help the sale of the book in London, and it will hardly have the effect of soothing any of the harsh feelings which may be still entertained by English writers towards American authors, or the American people at large. It is attaching too much importance to the paltry jealousy or ill nature of an anonymous scribbler to make his niaseries the subject of national recriminations. The portraits are chiefly valuable as being impressions from plates produced by the nearly discovered process of multiplying prints.