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

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The Illustrated History of Palestine, from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time. By JOHN KITTO, Editor of the “Pictorial Bible,” the “Cyclopœedia of Biblical Literature,” etc. New York: Wm. H. Graham, Tribune Buildings.

A duodecimo of 223 pages, illustrated by various engravings on wood. The history reaches from the Deluge to the Restoration of Syria to the dominion of the Porte — is well written, succinct and yet sufficiently comprehensive.