This volume is a compilation of pieces, most of which have appeared in the prominent American Magazines. Many of them were written at the time the author was connected, as editor, with the Baltimore Literary Monument. Several pieces in this volume may take a high rank in American poetry, and all of them do credit to the writer. The work is beautifully printed.
“The Literary Amaranth of Prose and Poetry.” By N. C. Brooks. Author of Scripture Anthology, Philadelphia: Kay & Brother.
This is chiefly a collection of the fugitive pieces of Mr. Brooks, with some emendation. Of the talents of the author we have had occasion before to speak, both in the Magazine and elsewhere. His Scripture Anthology established his claims as a writer. The work is beautifully got up, in the annual style, and is worthy of a conspicuous place upon the centre-table, among the presents of the season.
Reviews of the Third Volume of Bancroft’s History of the United States, of Mrs. Gore’s volume of Tales, and of several of the Annuals, have been crowded out by our press of matter. We shall, perhaps, be able to notice Bulwer’s last novel,—Morning and Night,—in our next.
THE LATEST FASHIONS, JANUARY 1841, FOR GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE.