Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), June 21, 1845, vol. 1, no. 25, p. ???-???

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De Rohan; or The Court Conspirator. An Historical Romance. By M. Eugene Sue. author of “The Mysteries of Paris,” etc. etc. New York: Harper & Brothers.

This is number 54 of Harper's “Library of Select Novels.” It is by no means as good a book as we have a right to expect from the author of “The Mysteries of Paris;” its interest has been materially impaired by too close an adherence to historical fact. The chief actors are two young girls, nobly born, and each of an heroic devotion beautifully diverse in character; a youth of great sensitiveness and timidity; a cynical and brutal giant and bufrion; a nobleman of the gay Court of Louis XIV; and an eccentric Dutch philosopher, of great genius and erudition.