Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), January 4, 1845, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 29

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CONVERSATIONS ON SOME OF THE OLD POETS. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. Cambridge: Published by John Owen, 1845.

We have only time this week to notice the outside of this new book. It makes a forcible appeal to the eye by its illuminated cover, which is one of the best specimens of that kind of illustration which we have seen from the American press. Its contents may be safely trusted in without criticism. Wiley & Putnam have the work for sale.