Text: C. F. Briggs (?), Literary, Broadway Journal (New York), May 31, 1845, vol. 1, no. 22, p. ??

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Table-talk, by William Hazlitt, part 2d, and talcs from the Geste Itornanorum, or nights with the old story tellers. Nos. 9 and 10 of Wiley and Putman's Library of choice reading.

The table talk is better known to our reading public than the Gesta Romanorum, but both books will be alike acceptable to those who will form their first acquaintance with them in the form that they are here presented in. It would be difficult to find pleasanter or better reading for a summer afternoon. We have extracted a short story from the Gesta Rumanormn in another part of our journal.