Text: Anonymous, “[Review of Burton's Gentleman's Magazine for September 1839],” Portland Transcript (Portland, ME), vol. 3, no. 23, September 14, 1839, p. 183, col. 3

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GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. — We have the September number. Not having received the August issue, we feared our old favorite had forsaken us. — Will the editor forward us the last number and oblige?

The present number opens with a Biography of Richard Penn Smith, accompanied by a portrait. — The latter has a very familiar look. Among the best things in the Gentleman's this month, is “A Rummage in my old Bureau,” by Burton himself — one of his happiest efforts — and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” by Edgar A. Poe, the associate editor. “Sketches from the log of Old Ironsides” keep up their interest. Miss Waterman has some touching verses in “The Dying Wife.” On the whole we are more than usually pleased with Mr. Burton this month, and as he has a dish for all tastes, we have no doubt he will suit his readers generally.