Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), July 12, 1845, vol. 2, no. 1, p. ???, col. ?

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Wiley and Putnam's Library of American Books. No. 11. Tales by Edgar A. Poe. New York and London: Wiley & Putnam.

This collection embraces the Gold Bug; the Black Cat; Mesmeric Revelation; Lionizing; the Fall of the House of Usher; the Descent into the Maelstrom; the Colloquy of Monos and Una; the conversation of Eiros and Charmion; the Murders in the Rue Morgue; the Mystery of Marie Rcget; the Purloined Letter and. the Man of the Crowd. This is a selection from about seventy tales, of similar length, written by Mr. Poe. No particular arrangement has been made in; the selection. The stories published in the volume before us, are neither better nor worse, in general, than the remainder of the seventy. In the composition of the whole series, variety of subject and manner, especially diversity of invention, were the objects held in view. Of course these objects are lust sight of, and must necessarily be sacrificed, in any mere selection of twelve tales from seventy.