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JUST PUBLISHED, In one Volume, 12mo., cloth, Price $1.50, THE LITERATI: SOME HONEST OPINIONS ABOUT AUTORIAL MERITS AND DEMERITS, WITH OCCASIONAL WORDS OF PERSONALITY INCLUDING MARGINALIA, SUGGESTIONS, AND ESSAYS.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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JUST PUBLISHED,
In one Volume, 12mo., cloth, Price $1.50,
THE LITERATI:
SOME HONEST OPINIONS ABOUT
AUTORIAL MERITS AND DEMERITS,
WITH OCCASIONAL WORDS OF PERSONALITY
INCLUDING
MARGINALIA, SUGGESTIONS, AND ESSAYS.

BY EDGAR A. POE.

If I have in any point receded from what is commonly received, it hath been
for the purpose of proceeding melius and not in aliud.

—Lord Bacon.

Truth, peradventure, by force, may for a time be trodden down, but never, by
any means, whatsoever can it be trodder out.

—Lord Coke.

Among the subjects treated of in the volume, are criticisms on the
works of the following authors:—

J. G. C. BRAINARD,

FITZ GREENE HALLECK,

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT,

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,

CHARLES F. HOFFMAN,

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS,

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER,

CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D.,

GULIAN C. VERPLANCK,

ROBERT WALSH,

PIERO MARONCELLI,

JOHN W. FRANCIS, M.D., LL.D

WILLIAM W. LORD,

SEBA SMITH,

THOMAS WARD, M.D.,

RICHARD ADAMS LOCKE,

RUFUS DAWES,

JAMES LAWSON,

PROSPER M. WETMORE,

GEORGE B. CHEEVER, D.D.,

FREEMAN HUNT,

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE,

RUFUS W. GRISWOLD,

BAYARD TAYLOR,

CHRISTOPHER PEASE CRANCH,

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,

CORNELIUS MATHEWS,

HENRY B. HIRST,

LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK,

RALPH HOYT,

JAMES ALDRICH,

THOMAS DUNN BROWN,

CHARLES F. BRIGGS,

WILLIAM M. GILLESPIE,

EVERT A. DUYCKINCK,

JOEL T. HEADLEY,

GEORGE P. MORRIS,

NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS,

HENRY CAREY,

LAUGHTON OSBORN,

EPES SARGENT,

E. P. WHIPPLE,

ROBERT M. BIRD,

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING,

WILLIAM A. JAMES,

CATHARINE M. SEDGWICK,

FRANCES S. OSGOOD,

ANNE C. LYNCH,

ELIZABETH OAKES-SMITH,

CAROLINE M. KIRKLAND,

ANNA CORA MOWATT,

ANN S. STEPHENS,

ESTELLE ANNA LEWIS,

ELIZABETH BOGART,

MARY GOVE NICHOLS,

AMELIA B. WELBY,

MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON,

LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON,

SARAH MARGARET FULLER,

EMMA C. EMBURY,

LYDIA M. CHILD,

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING,

T. B. MACAULAY,

CHARLES LEVER,

HENRY COCKTON,

CHARLES DICKENS,

R. H. HORNE,

FRANCIS MARRYAT,

SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON,

THOMAS HOOD.