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Vol.
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1844 - October 12
(vol. I, no. 1) |
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- "Authors' Pay in America" (p. 15, cols.
2-3) (reprinted
from EM of October 10, 1844) (Erroneously attributed to Poe by
H&C.
Instead, the article is by N. P. Willis. This is the first installment
of a series of related articles. Poe wrote several of the items about
the
pay for American authors, but not these two.)
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1844 - October 19
(vol. I, no. 2) |
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- "The Pay for Periodical Writing" (p. 28, cols.
2-3) (reprinted
from EM of October 12, 1844) (Erroneously attributed to Poe by H&C.
Instead, the article is by N. P. Willis. This is the second installment
of a series of related articles. Poe wrote several of the items about
the
pay for American authors, but not these two.)
- "When the English play the literary thief . .
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col. 1,
lower middle) (reprinted from EM of October 12, 1844)
(Attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
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1844 - November 9
(vol. I, no. 5) |
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- Article beginning, "It is satisfactory to know that,
for the
insult
offered
by a foreign count to Everett . . ." (p. 77, col. 1) (reprinted
from
EM of November 2, 1844) (Attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
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1844 - November
17 (vol. I, no. 6) |
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- "A Silly Girl of a Numerous Kind" (p. 81, col. 3,
bottom)
(reprinted
from EM of November 11, 1844) (Attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
- Notices of "McCulloch's Gazetteer" and "Frost's Book
of the Army"
(p.
96,
col. 3) (reprinted from EM of November 11, 1844) (Attributed to Poe by
W. D. Hull)
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1844 - November
23 (vol. I, no. 7) |
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- Notices of "Boyd's Rhetoric," "Settlers in Canada by
Captain
Marryatt"
and Simm's "The Life of Francis Marion" (p. 112, col. 3) (All
three
notices reprinted from EM of November 16, 1844.) (Attributed to Poe by
Mabbott and W. D. Hull)
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1844 - December 7
(vol. I, no. 9) |
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- Personal Notices of Miss Barrett (p. 135, cols.
1-2)
(Beginning,
"MISS BARRETT. — We received a note yesterday, in a most prepossessing
lady's hand writing, begging a review of . . .") (reprinted from
EM of December 7, 1844) (Attributed to Poe by Woodberry,
along
with the earlier notice. Mabbott thinks the first one is by Cornelius
Mathews.
W. D. Hull thinks both are by N. P. Willis.)
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1844 - December
14 (vol. I, no. 10) |
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- Notice of "Grimes Etherology; or the Philosophy of
Mesmerism" (p.
146,
col. 3) (reprinted from EM of December 5, 1844)
(Attributed
to Poe by W. D. Hull)
- Notice of "Thirlwall's History of Greece" (p. 146,
col.
3)
(reprinted from EM of December 10, 1844)
- Notice of "Hoffmann's Poems" (p. 158, cols.
2-3)
(reprinted
in WM of December 14, 1844) (attributed to Poe by Killis
Campbell)
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1844 - December
21 (vol. I, no. 11) |
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- Review of "Cobb's North American Reader" (p.
164, col.
2)
(reprinted
from EM of December 13, 1844) (attributed to Poe by Hull)
- "Bancroft the Historian and His Impugners" (?) (p.
175, col. 3,
bottom)
(reprinted from EM of December 18, 1844) (attributed to Poe, as
perhaps,
by Mabbott)
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1844 - December
28 (vol. I, no. 12) |
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- Review of "Illustrated Astronomy" (?) (p. 180, col.
3)
(reprinted
from EM of December 20, 1844) (attributed to Poe, as doubtful, by
Mabbott.
Also attributed to Poe by Hull.)
- Review of Hoyt - "A Chaunt of Life" (p. 185,
cols.
1-2)
(reprinted from EM of December 23, 1844) (attributed to Poe by
Mabbott,
but disputed by Hull)
- Notice of "Evening Hours" (?) (p. 185, cols.
2-3)
(reprinted
from EM of December 21, 1844) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott, but
disputed by Hull)
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1845 - January 4
(vol. I, no. 13) |
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- Notice of "Goldsmith's Gems of Penmanship" (?) (p.
200, col.
3)
(reprinted
from EM of December 30, 1844) (attributed to Poe by Hull)
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1845 - January 11
(vol. I, no. 14) |
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- "Why have the New Yorkers No Review?" (p. 219,
col. 1,
lower
middle)
(reprinted from EM of January 8, 1845) (attributed to Poe
by
Mabbott)
- "Subserviency to British Criticism" (p. 219,
cols.
1-2)
(reprinted
from EM of January 8, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
- "Captain Kidd's Vessel" (p. 219, co. 2, lower
middle)
(attributed
to Poe by Mabbott) (reprinted from EM of January 8, 1845)
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1845 - January 18
(vol. I, no. 15) |
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- "Rhetorical Resemblances" (p. 229, col. 3)
(reprinted from
EM of
January 9, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
- "Magaziniana" (p.
227, cols.
2-3)
(reprinted from EM of January 10, 1845) (attributed to Poe
by Hull, but disputed by Mabbott) (Marked "P?" by Mabbott
in
the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- "The Alphadelphia
Tocsin" (p.
227,
col.
3) (reprinted from EM of January 11, 1845) (Marked "P" by Mabbott
in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- "Lunar Atmosphere" (p. 237, col. 3,
middle)
(reprinted from
EM of January 10, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
(Marked
"P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- "The Cincinnati Telescope" (p. 238, cols.
2-3)
(reprinted
from
EM of January 10, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
- Review of J. R. Lowell - Conversations (p.
239, col.
2)
(reprinted
from EM of January 11, 1845) (Marked "P" by Mabbott in the
Columbia
Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
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1845 - January 25
(vol. I, no. 16) |
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- "Nature and Art"
(p. 249,
cols.
2-3)
(reprinted from EM of January 17, 1845) (Marked "P" by Mabbott in
the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- Review of
Longfellow - Waif
(parts I & II) (p. 250, col. 2 - p. 251, col.3.) (Part I
reprinted
from EM of January 13, 1845. Part II reprinted from EM of January 14,
1845)
(Both marked "P" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly
Mirror.)
- "Post Notes by the
Critic"
(p. 251, cols. 1-3) (reprinted from EM of January 20, 1845)
(This is a Poe's response to a reply of "H." of Boston to Poe's
two-part
review of Longfellow's Waif, reprinted in the same
issue.)
(Marked "P" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly
Mirror.)
- "A Slander which Needs Immediate Contradiction"
(p. 252,
col.
3)
(reprinted from EM of January 17, 1845) (attributed to Poe by
Mabbott)
(Marked "P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly
Mirror.)
- "The Branded Hand" (p. 253, col. 2, bottom)
(reprinted from
EM of
January 17, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott and Hull)
(Marked
"P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- Notice of "Chalmer's Introduction to the History of
the Revolt of
the
Colonies"
(p. 256, col. 2, bottom) (reprinted from EM of January 25,
1845)
(attributed to Poe by Hull)
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1845 - February 1
(vol. I, no. 17) |
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- Notice of "Mike Martin" (p. 267, col. 1,
bottom)
(reprinted
from EM of January 29, 1845) (attributed to Poe, as
perhaps,
by Hull) (Marked "P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The
Weekly Mirror.)
- Notice of "Dr. Draper's New Book" (p. 268,
cols. 1-2)
(reprinted
from EM of January 20, 1845, where it carries the title "Dr. Draper and
the North American Review") (attributed to Poe by Hull, but
disputed
by Mabbott)
- "Pay of American Authors" (p. 271, col. 1)
(reprinted from
EM of
January 24, 1845) (This is the first of four articles in the
series
by Poe.) (Marked "P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The
Weekly Mirror.)
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1845 - February 8
(vol. I, no. 18) |
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- Notice of Brooks' Address on the Introduction of
Natural History
as a
Regular
Classic in our Seminaries (p. 256, col. 2)
(attributed
by Hull, but possibly disputed by Mabbott)
- "The Raven" (poem) (p. 276, cols. 1-2)
(reprinted from EM
of
January
29, 1845) (The EM printing is, technically, the first printing of
"The Raven," probably appearing just before the February issue of The
American Whig Review was available.)
- Notice of "Westminster Review for December" (p. 278,
col. 3,
bottom)
(reprinted
from EM of January 29, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Hull, but disputed
by
Mabbott) (Marked "P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The
Weekly Mirror.)
- Notice of "The Rise and Fall of the Irish
Nation" (p. 279,
col.
3,
near bottom) (reprinted from EM of January 29, 1845)
(attributed
to Poe, as perhaps, by Hull)
- "Pay of American Authors" (p. 280, col.
3) (reprinted
from
EM of January 31, 1845, where it appears under the longer title of "Pay
of American Authors: Synopsis of the International Copy-Right
Question.")
(This is the fourth of four articles in the series by Poe.)
(Marked
"P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- Notice of "Martin's Bible" (p. 281, col. 2,
bottom)
(reprinted
from EM of February 3, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Hull)
(There
is another short notice of Martin's Bible, also commenting on its
"splendor"
in EM of December 18, 1844)
- Article - "Wood Pavements" (p. 285, cols.
2-3)
(reprinted
from
EM of January 31, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
(Marked
"P" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- "Pay of American Authors" (p. 288, col. 1)
(reprinted from
EM of
January 25, 1845) (This is the second of four articles in the
series
by Poe. For some reason, the third item in the EM series, "Pay of
American
Authors — The Magazines," was the only one not to be reprinted in the
WM.) (Marked "P?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The
Weekly Mirror.)
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1845 - February
15 (vol. I, no. 19) |
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- Article - "Try
a
Mineralized
Pavement"
(p. 296, cols. 1-2) (reprinted from EM of February 8, 1845, where it
carries
the title "Why Not Try a Mineralized Pavement?") (Marked "P?" by
Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- "The Theory of Color" (p. 297, cols. 1-2)
(reprinted
from
EM
of February 8, 1845, where it carries the title of "New views on the
Theory
of Color." The EM version also has some additonal text at the
end.)
(attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
- "Magazine Literature"
(p. 299,
cols.
2-3) (reprinted from EM of February 12, 1845) (Marked "P?"
by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- "New Era in the English Drama" (p. 301, cols.
2-3)
(reprinted
from EM of February 7, 1845) (attributed to Poe by
Mabbott)
(Marked "?" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly
Mirror.)
- "Literary Intelligence" (p. 304) (reprinted
from EM of
February
6,
1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott and Hull)
- "Literary" (p. 304, cols. 1-3) (reprinted from
EM of
February 7,
1845) (attributed to Poe by Killis Campbell and Mabbott. Also
attributed
to Poe by Hull, except the notice of "Hunt's Magazine," which he thinks
is by Willis.) (The notice of Hawthorne is marked with short
pencil
dashes at beginning and end, perhaps by Mabbott, in the Columbia Univ.
set of The Weekly Mirror.)
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1845 - February
22 (vol. I, no. 20) |
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- "Imitation — Plagiarism" (p. 306, cols. 2-3)
(reprinted
from EM
of
February 15, 1845) (Marked "P" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ.
set
of The Weekly Mirror.)
- Comment on "The Sanitary Condition of the Laboring
Population of
New
York
by Dr. Griscom" (p. 308, col. 3) (reprinted from EM of
February
15, 1845) (attributed to Poe, as perhaps, by Hull)
- "Plagiarism" (p. 310, cols. 1-2)
(reprinted from EM
of
February
17, 1845) (Marked "P" by Mabbott in the Columbia Univ. set of The
Weekly Mirror.)
- Notice of "Life and Correspondence of Thomas
Arnold" (p.
315,
cols.
2-3) (reprinted from EM of February 18, 1845) (attributed
to
Poe, as perhaps, by Hull, but disputed by Mabbott)
- Review of "Graham's Magazine for March" (p. 317, col.
2)
(reprinted
from EM of February 14, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Killis
Campbell,
but disputed by Hull) (The section quoted from "a foreign
correspondent"
is marked in pencil at the beginning and end, perhaps by Mabbott, in
the
Columbia Univ. set of The Weekly Mirror.)
- Comment about "The Hon. Robert T. Conrad" (p.
320, cols.
1-2)
(reprinted from EM of February 15, 1845) (attributed to Poe by
Mabbott)
- Notice on "Saunders — On Milton J. Saunders"
(p. 320, col.
2)
(reprinted from EM of February 15, 1845) (attributed to Poe by
Mabbott
and Hull)
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1845 -
March 8 (vol. I, no. 22) |
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- "Literary Larceny" (p. 345, col. 3, near
bottom)
(reprinted
from EM of February 26, 1845) (attributed to Poe by Mabbott)
- "Plagiarism" (a letter to Willis, signed
"Outis") (p.
346-347)
(???) (reprinted from EM of March 1, 1845) (The question of
whether
or not Poe was Outis has been the subject of some discussion and
remains
unresolved. Campbell, Mabbott and Pollin all believed Poe himself to be
Outis, but a number of other names have been suggested.)
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