Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), October 11, 1845, vol. 2, no. 14, p. ???, col. ?

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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing-Room. By Caroline Gilman. New-York: Wiley & Putnam.

This is the third edition of a book which has been exceedingly popular, and justly so. Nothing could be better adapted for the amusement of an evening party. — The game is composed of fourteen questions with sixty answers each, numbered. The Oracle, for example, demands of a gentleman — “What is the personal appearance of her who loves you?” The gentleman answers with any number from 1 to 60 — say 20. Turning to 20, the oracle reads as follows, from Washington Allston:

Every thought and feeling throw

Their shadows o’er her face,

And so are every thought and feeling joined,

‘Twere hard to answer whether thought or mind

Of either were the native place.

The volume is beautifully printed and bound, and forms a most appropriate present.