Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), December 20, 1845, vol. 2, no. 24, p. ???, col. ?

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First Lessons in English Composition; or, a Help to Young Writers. By E. NOTT, D. D., President of Union College. Sixth Edition.

First Lessons in Political Economy, for the Use of Schools and Families. By JOHN M. VICAR, D. D., Professor of Political Economy, Columbia College, N. Y. Seventh Edition.

First Lessons in Chemistry, for the Use of Schools and Families. By UNCLE DAVY. Sixth Edition.

These little works have been received with great favor, and it would be difficult to conceive any similar Lessons better adapted to the instruction of very young persons. The two volumes first mentioned are guaranteed by the names of the authors. The last (by Uncle Davy) may be by Humphrey Davy, or his ghost, for anything that we know to the contrary, but with a fund of accurate chemical information it contains some unusually loose grammar. On the very first page, for example, we read:

Heat means the substance, that, when enough of it gets into anything, it makes that thing feel hot.

We will put this sentence (punctuation and all) against anything written by Thomas Carlyle.

These three valuable little volumes are published in New York, by Saxton & Miles.