Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), June 7, 1845, vol. 1, no. 23, p. ???-???

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Lives of Men of Letters and Science who flourished is the time of George III. By Henry Lord Brougham, F.R.S., etc. etc. Philadelphia. Carey & Hart.

A work which, of necessity, every thinking person must read. When Brougham writes of Voltaire, Rousseau, Hume, Robertson, Black, Watt, Priestley, Cavendish, Davy, and [column 2:] Simpson, no one pretending to acquirement can remain quietly in ignorance of what is written. Most sincerely do we rejoice in the great statesman's hearty appreciation of Voltaire — a man who, with all his blemishes, was unquestionably the most powerful who ever existed.