Text: N. P. Willis (?), Review of A Twelfth-Day Present, Evening Mirror (New York), January 11, 1845, vol. 1, no. 81, p. 2, col. 3

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A TWELFTH-DAY PRESENT. — The Curiosities of Literature. — There can be nothing much more intrinsically valuable in the way of a literary Twelfth-Day present, or in the way of a present at any time, than a rich volume just published and for sale at the Tribune building — the “Curiosities of Literature.” The book embraces the well-known work of the elder D’Israeli, and the late pendant on American topics, by Mr. Griswold. The latter is a clever idea cleverly executed, and the former is of that class of works, to be without which, is to be at a loss on a thousand important, because ever-recurring, pints of literary gossip — literary history — literary statistics. A phrase, now and then, is not much the worse for being common, and we say emphatically of the “Curiosities,” that no library worth the name “is complete without it.” It is for sale at the Tribune office.