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THIS work is conducted in the spirit Of
Littelfs Museum of Foreign Literature,
(Which was favorably received by the public
for twenty years,) butas it istwice as large,
and appears SO often, we not only give spirit
and freshness TO 1t by many things which
were excluded by a months delay, but while
thus extending our scope and gathering a
greater and more attractive variety, are able
so TO increase The solid and substantial part
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est, as fully 10 satisfy the wants of the
American reader.
The elaborate and stately Essays Of the
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Blackwood's noble criticisms on Poetry, his
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