Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), September 20, 1845, vol. 2, no. 11, p. ???, col. ?

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Agnes Serle. A Novel. By Miss Ellen Pickering, author of “Nan Darrell,” “The Fright,” etc. etc. New York: E. Ferrett & Co.

Few novelists have ever been more really popular than Miss Pickering. She seldom greatly excites, but invariably produces the most agreeable kind of interest. It is a difficult matter to take up one of her skilful stories, and put it down unread. “Agnes Serle” is fully equal to anything she has written, as regards its power of enchaining attention. She does not deserve, however, as much credit for it as for her more original novels: it is, in many respects, a close imitation of that excellent fiction “Santo Sebastiano, or the Young Protector.”