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                | Introduction |  | v | 
              
                | Poems by William Cullen Bryant [[Not by Poe]] |  | 1 | 
              
                | Confessions of a Poet [[Laughton Osborn]] |  | 2 | 
              
                | Horse-Shoe Robinson [[J. P. Kennedy]] |  | 4 | 
              
                | I Promessi Sposi, or the Betrothed Lovers [[A. Manzoni, translated by
                  G. W. Featherstonhaugh]] [[Not by Poe]] |  | 12 | 
              
                | Journal — by Frances Anne Butler |  | 19 | 
              
                | The Infidel, or the Fall of Mexico [[R. M. Bird]] [[Not by Poe]] |  | 32 | 
              
                | The Conquest of Florida, by Hernando de Soto [[T. Irving]] [[Not by
                  Poe]] |  | 37 | 
              
                | The Crayon Miscellany, No. II, containing Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey
                  [[W. Irving]] [[Not by Poe]] |  | 40 | 
              
                | Mephistopheles in England, or the Confessions of a Prime Minister [[R.
                  F. Williams]] |  | 42 | 
              
                | The Classical Family Library [[Euripidies, translated by Rev. R.
                  Potter]] |  | 43 | 
              
                | The Early Naval History of England [[J. F. Cooper]] |  | 48 | 
              
                | The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1836 [[Annual,
                  edited by Miss E. Leslie]] |  | 50 | 
              
                | Norman Leslie [[Theodore S. Fay]] |  | 51 | 
              
                | The Hawks of Hawk-Hollow [[R. M. Bird]] |  | 63 | 
              
                | Tales of the Peerage and the Peasantry [[edited by Lady B. Dacre]] |  | 74 | 
              
                | The Heroine: of Adventures of Cherubina [[Eaton Stannard Barrett]] |  | 76 | 
              
                | The Edinburgh Review [[magazine]] |  | 82 | 
              
                | Nuts to Crack [[R. Gooch]] |  | 90 | 
              
                | The Crayon Miscellany [[W. Irving]] |  | 91 | 
              
                | Lives of the Necromancers [[W. Godwin]] |  | 92 | 
              
                | The Linwoods [[C. M. Sedgwick]] |  | 94 | 
              
                | A Memoir of the Reverend John H. Rice, D. D. [[W. Maxwell]] |  | 101 | 
              
                | Oration on the Life and Character of the Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D. D.
                  [[W. Anderson]] |  | 102 | 
              
                | A Life of George Washington, in Latin Prose [[F. Glass]] |  | 103 | 
              
                | Sketches of History, Life, and Manners in the West [[J. Hall]] |  | 108 | 
              
                | Clinton Bradshaw, or the Adventures of a Lawyer [[F. W. Thomas]] |  | 109 | 
              
                | The Rambler in North America, 1832-1833 [[C. J. Latrobe]] |  | 111 | 
              
                | Judge Story's Discourse on Chief-Justice Marshall [[possibly not
                  by Poe]] |  | 114 | 
              
                | Binney's Eulogium [[H. W. Binney]] [[possibly not by Poe]] |  | 114 | 
              
                | Inaugural Address of the Rev. D. L. Carroll, D. D. |  | 116 | 
              
                | Traits of American Life [[Mrs. S. J. Hale]] |  | 117 | 
              
                | An Address on Education [[L. Minor]] |  | 118 | 
              
                | Legends of a Log-Cabin [[C. R. Gilman]] |  | 120 | 
              
                | Zinzendorff and Other Poems [[L. H. Sigourney]] |  | 122 | 
              
                | Poems — by Miss H. F. Gould |  | 122 | 
              
                | Poems: Translated and Original [[E. F. Ellet]] |  | 122 | 
              
                | The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution [[W. G. Simms]] |  | 143 | 
              
                | The Young Wife's Book [[T. S. Arthur]] |  | 158 | 
              
                | Tales and Sketches [[C. M. Sedgwick]] |  | 160 | 
              
                | Reminiscences of an Intercourse with Mr. Niebuhr, the Historian [[F.
                  Lieber]] |  | 162 | 
              
                | The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe [[D. Defoe]] |  | 169 | 
              
                | The Poetry of Life [[S. Stickney]] |  | 173 | 
              
                | The Christian Florist [[Anonymous]] |  | 177 | 
              
                | Paul Ulric: or the Adventures of an Enthusiast [[M. Mattson]] |  | 178 | 
              
                | Animal and Vegetable Physiology [[P. M. Roget]] |  | 206 | 
              
                | A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer of Virginia [[J. Martin]] |  | 211 | 
              
                | The American in England [[Alexander Slidell]] |  | 214 | 
              
                | Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes [[E. Bulwer]] |  | 222 | 
              
                | Conti the Discarded [[H. F. Chorley]] |  | 229 | 
              
                | The Confessions of Emilia Harrington [[L. A. Wilmer]] |  | 234 | 
              
                | The Noble Deeds of Woman [[E. Starling]] |  | 238 | 
              
                | Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of America
                    — Virginia [[F. L. Hawks]] |  | 239 | 
              
                | Phrenology, and the Moral Influence of Phrenology [[Mrs. L. Miles]] |  | 252 | 
              
                | Mahmoud [[Constantinople and Its Environs]] [[D. Porter]] |  | 256 | 
              
                | Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, etc. [[A. B. Longstreet]] |  | 257 | 
              
                | Slavery in the United States [[J. K. Paulding]] [[Not by Poe]] |  | 265 | 
              
                | The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Northern Abolitionists [[W.
                  Drayton]] [[Not by Poe]] |  | 265 | 
              
                | The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems [[J. R. Drake]] |  | 275 | 
              
                | Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems [[F. G. Halleck]] |  | 275 | 
              
                | Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau [[Sir F. B. Head]] |  | 319 | 
              
                | Walsh's Didactics [[R. Walsh]] |  | 321 | 
              
                | Appendix: Poe's Reply to his Critics |  | 331 |