Text: Various, “[Review excerpts on Poe's Tales],” Wiley & Putnam's Literary News-Letter (New York, NY), vol. IV, no. 45, August 1845, p. 353, col. 1

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TALES. By Edgar A. Poe. 1 vol., beautiful printed in large clear type, on fine paper. Fifty Cents.

This collection includes the most characteristic of the peculiar series of Tales written by Mr. Poe. Among others will be found “The Murders of the Rue Morgue,” “The Purloined Letter,” “Marie Roget,” “The House of Usher,” “The Black Cat,” “The Gold Bug,” “The Descent into the Maelstrom,” “Mesmeric Revelations,” &c., &c.

“Most characteristic tales and stories.” — Boston Courier.

“These effusions are well known, and have been well appreciated. Mr. Poe's singular and powerful style of prose writing has a charm which ought to be enjoyed more than once.” — United States Gazette.

“Mr. Poe's tales are written with much power, while all possess deep interest.” — Philadelphia Enquirer.

“There are many writers in this country whose articles only see the light in the pages of a two or three dollar magazine, who are at least equal to some foreign authors whose works are reprinted here in the cheap and nasty style by the cart-load. The consequence is that our own authors are scarcely heard of, while Mrs. Gore and Mary Howitt, Lover, Lever, &c., &c., are lauded and read the country over. This is all wrong, and we cordially wish the publishers with American Literature. These Tales by Mr. Poe will be hailed as a rare treat by all lovers of the exciting and the marvellous. Full of more than German mysticism, grotesque, strange, improbably, but intensely interesting, they will be read and remembered when better things are forgotten.” — New Haven Courier.