Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), September 13, 1845, vol. 2, no. 10, p. ???, col. ?

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Short Patent Sermons. By Dow, Jr. Originally published in the New York Sunday Mercury. Vol. I. New York: Paige, Nichols, & Krauth.

These patent sermons have had a wide celebrity, and in great measure deserve it from their wit and bonhommie, totally devoid of offence. Who Dow Jr. is, we have never yet been able to say. For anything we know to the contrary, he may be our friend of the United States’ Journal. We have heard him discourse by the hour in a strain very much akin to that of the volume before us.