A NEW AND ELEGANT LIBRARY EDITI10. 
OF THE WORKS OF 
EDGAR ALLAN POE 
WITH NOTICES OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS, 
By J. R. LOWELL, N. P. WILLIS, and R. W. GRISWOLD. 
Handsomely printed on laid tinted paper, uniform with the “ River- 
side” Editions, in four volumes. 
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS, 
“A complete collection of the works of one of the most talented and singular 
men of the day. Mr. Poe was a genius—he was » comet or a meteor, not a star or 
sun. lis genius was that almost contradiction of terms, an analytic genius, 
Genius is nearly universally synthetic—but Poe was an exception to allrules. He 
would build up a poem as a bricklayer builds a wall: or rather, he would begin at 
the top and build downward to the base; and yet, into the poem he would manage 
tu breathe the breath of life. And this fact proved the poem was, to a certain 
degree, a growth, a real plant, taking root in the mind, and watered by the springs 
of the soul."—Saturday Post. 
“We need not say that these volumes will be found rich in intclléctual excite- 
ments, and abounding in remarkable specimens of vigorous, beautiful, and highly 
suggestive composition; they are all that remains to us of 4 man whose uncom- 
mon genius it would be folly to deny."—. ¥. Tribune. 
“Mr. Poe’s intellectual character—his genius—is stamped upon ali his produc- 
tions, and we shall place these his works in the library among those books not tr 
be parted with."—. Y¥. Commercial Advertiser. 
“Poe's writings are distinguished for vigorous and minute analysis, and the ski!] 
with which he has employed the strange fascination of mystery and terror. There 
is an air of reality in all his narrations—a dwelling upon particulars, and a faculty 
uf interesting you in them such as is possessed by few writers except those whe 
are giving their own individual experienees. The reader can scarcely divest his 
mind, even in reading the most fanciful of his stories, that ‘the events of it have 
not actually occurred, and the characters had a real existence."—Philadelphia 
Lelyer, 
W. J. WIDDLETON, 
PULLISHER, 17 MERCER STREET, New Yoru 
