Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), August 16, 1845, vol. 2, no. 6, p. ???, col. ?

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The Farmer's Library and Monthly Journal of Agriculture. Edited by John S. Skinner . New York: Greely & Mc Elrath.

We have received the first and second numbers of this truly valuable Monthly — those for July and August. The success of the enterprise may well be phrophseied. Mr. Skinner has failed in none of his undertakings, and perhaps there is no man in America, so well qualified as himself to conduct an agricultural journal. More than twenty six years ago he commenced in Baltimore “The American Farmer,” the first paper in this country devoted to the interest of the husbandman.

The numbers before us abound in interesting matter. Among other papers we find a Biography of Stephen Van Renssellaer (with a superb portrait) and the commencement of a reprint of the famous Lectures of Pertzholdt. No Magazine in America equals this in the manner of its getting up. The price is five dollars per annum.