Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), November 8, 1845, vol. 2, no. 18, p. ???, col. ?

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Critical Notices.

The Artist, The Merchant and The Statesman, of the Age of the Medici, and of our own Times. By C. Edwards Lester, U. S., Consul at Genoa, Author of “The Glory and Shame of England,” etc. etc. In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. New-York: Paine A Burgess.

We have been much interested in this volume, and shall take occasion to speak of it folly hereafter: — at present it can hardly be considered as before the public. The contents are ‘’A Letter on the Genius and Sculptures of Powers” — “An Apology for Powers” — “Conversations with Powers in his Studio at Florence — Serving as an Autobiography of the Sculptor — with a History of his Life and Works” — Tuckerman's Letter on the Genins of Powers” — and “A Letter on the Establishment of a New Consular System in the United States, with Glances at the Origin and History of the Consular Establishments of Ancient and Modem Nations — the Evils of our Present System etc. etc. — Addressed to the Hon. Wm. W. Campbell, M. C.. from New-York.”

The volume is embellished with a very fine portrait of Powers.