Text: Edgar Allan Poe (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), December 27, 1845, vol. 2, no. 25, p. ???, col. ?

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The Columbian Magazine, for January, is really very creditable to all concerned in its issue. There are two very excellent mezzotints, one by Doney and one by Sadd — the latter from a design by Matteson: — subject, a scene from The Pioneers. This is the first of a series of similar illustrations of American works of history or fiction.

The contributions are from many of the best of our littérateurs. Mrs. Osgood, for example, has an article — also Mrs. Ellett, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Embury, Mrs. Child, Miss Sedgwick, Miss Gould, Neal, Paulding, Tuckerman, Inman, and others. Miss Blackwell furnishes both words and music of a very fanciful and sweet ballad called “Fairy Kandore.”