Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), October 18, 1845, vol. 2, no. 15, p. ???, col. ?

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Wiley & Putnam's “Foreign Library.”

A Prospectus has been issued of this new undertaking, which has grown out of the popular series of books in “The Library of Choice Reading,” with an eye to a convenient division of the volumes for the Library. The Foreign Library will be published uniformly with the other, with equal attention to the beauty of the typography, and the excellence of the editions, and at equally low rates. By the publishers’ announcement it will include the leading classic works of the Foreign languages, both ancient and modern — the latter being a new and important [column 2:] feature of the undertaking — with such works of miscellaneous literature as may be worthy a permanent place in the Library. The historical works of Schiller are announced, Goethe's Wilhelmmeister, Mitchell's Translation of Aristophanes, &c. The first numbers will be Bensenerto Cellini's Memoirs, the full and elaborately illustrated edition of Roscoe; a valuable and delightful work, for its historical and personal interest, which Horace Walpole pronounced “more amusing than any novel, and of which a complete translation is included in the works of Goethe. We shall have more to say of the plan and the books hereafter.