Text: Anonymous, “[Review of Snowden's Ladies Companion for December, 1842],” Commercial Advertiser and Journal (Buffalo, NY), new series, vol. 4, no. 299, December 17, 1842, p. 2, col. 3

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THE LADIES COMPANION for December is embellished by a prettily executed steel plate entitled Florine, illustrated by a letter-press attempt at the romantic of which the lees that is said the better land a really beautiful engraving of the Gothic church at New Haven, beside the usual plate of the Fabione and a pleasing piece of music. The number contains “Poyntz's Aunt” by WILLIS — weak and silly, utterly unworthy his pen — a capital story entitled “Masking and Unmasking,’ by F. A. DUVIAGE, “the Country Cousin” pleasingly told by Mrs. ORNE, a “Canine Incident” by Mr. TAGISTRO, narrated in his accustomed graceful style, the continuation of “the Ups and Downs of Lot Wyman” by SEBA SMITH, the original Jack Downing, and some half dozen or more other articles in prose and verse by other writers, embracing a continuation of “the Mystery of Marie Roget” by E. A. POE, which the writer, with the strictest adherence to the facts in the case of Mary Rogers, is working into a tale of great interest.