WILEY & PUTNAM'S ADVEPTISEMENT. 



affords valuable and compiehensive informatioi concerning the Coloniza- 

 tion Society's settlement at Liberia. Very few persons have chosen that 

 field of travel, and few have written about what they have seei ; conse- 

 quently this work is the more agreeable." Pennsyl. Inquirer. 



The present Volume is No. I. of WILEY AND PUTNAM'S LIBRARY or 

 AMERICAN BOOKS. The Library of Choice Reading, it will be remem- 

 bered, was to include a series of new works by our own authors, one of 

 the most acceptable features of the plan. This is now commenced, and it 

 is earnestly to be hoped that it will meet with a liberal and efficient en- 

 couragement. The works which have already been published in this 

 form, are from the best writers in England, and have become exceedingly 

 popular with the reading public here. A series of American works, se- 

 lected with equal discrimination and taste, cannot fail to receive as cordial 

 a reception especially when it is remembered that the interests of authors 

 in this country are, in no small degree, the interests of the people at large. 

 The title page of this work " The Library of American Books "is an 

 appeal for the Literature of America ; such an one as it has a right to 

 make in its own behalf, with the expectation of a hearty response." 

 Pott. 



POE'S TALES. 



TALES. By EDGAR A. POE. 1 Vol. beautifully printed in large clear 

 type, on fine paper, 50 cts. 



This collection will include the most characteristic of the peculiar series 

 of Tales written by Mr. Poe. Among others will be found " The Murder* 

 of the Rue Morgue," "The Purloined Letter," "Marie Roget," " The 

 House of Usher," " The Black Cat," " The Gold Bug," " The Descent 

 into the Maelstrom," " The Prematura Burial," " Mesmeric Revelation*," 

 fee. &c. 



" Most characteristic tales and stories." Boston Courier. 



" These effusions are well known, and have been well appreciated. Mr. 

 Foe's singular and powerful style of prose writing, has a charm which 

 ought to be enpyed more than once." U. S. Gazette. 



*'* Mr. Poe's tales are written with much pc ver, while all possess deep 

 interest " Phil a. Inquirer. 



"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 author's whose works are reprinted here in the cheap and 

 najty 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 

 crdially wish the publishers success in the effort to make us better ac- 

 quainted with American Literature. These Tales by Mr. Poe will ba 

 hailed as a rare treat by all lovers of the exciting and the marvellous. 

 Full of more than German mysticism, grotesque, strange, improbable, but 

 intensely interesting, they will be read and remembered when better things 

 Mr* f'^.-jftrn "--.,V<"f/ Ifar Courier 



