Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), May 10, 1845, vol. 1, no. 19, p. ???-???

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BLACKWOOD. — Mess. Leonard, Scott & Co. have issued. the April number of Blackwood. It contains eight papers of varied excellence, but all good. “Ping-Kee's view of the stage” is piquant exceedingly, and North's Account of Dryden (although disfigured with the usual carelessness and rant of Wilson) is an admirable essay. The continuation of the papers called “Confessions of an Opium Eater” is better, we think, than the original — which was a lie throughout. There is yet room for a book on opium eating, which shall be the most profoundly interesting volume ever penned. It would be written, however, by no De Quincy.