Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), September 27, 1845, vol. 2, no. 12, p. ???, col. ?

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Introduction to the American Common-School Reader and Speaker; Comprising Selections in Prose and Verse: with Elementary Rules and Exercises in Pronun ciation. By William Russell and John Goldsbury, authors of the above-mentioned Reader. Boston: Charles Tappan. New-York: Saxton & Huntingdon.

This useful book, as its title announces, is designed as an introduction to the previous work of the authors; and its principles of elocution arc, of course, such as belong to an elementary treatise. They are “intended for practical training in the rudiments of orthoepy.” The two volumes form an admirable and nearly perfect system.

The selections are made with unusual judgment. [page 180:] We observe that a poem entitled “The Ocean” is printed anonymously. It is a beautiful lyric, and its author should be known — J. Augustus Shea, lately deceased.