“The second part is as original and as fascinating as the first, and those who read the first will know that no higher praise can be given.”
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QUICKENS, QUARLES, pseud.[[2]] English notes. $15 L. M. Thompson, 29 Broadway, N.Y. 817
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“In 1842, not long after the appearance of Charles Dickens’s irritating ‘American notes,’ there was published anonymously in Boston a work bearing for its title an obvious parody—‘English notes for very extensive circulation by Quarles Quickens.’ This book is now reprinted by Lewis M. Thompson of New York, with an introductory essay designed to prove that the person who hid under the pseudonym of ‘Quarles Quickens’ was Edgar Allan Poe. Joseph Jackson and George H. Sargent supply an introduction and notes, and the publisher has added two portraits of Poe.”—Springf’d Republican
“The book is valuable as a curiosity rather than as a masterpiece of Poe’s style.”
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“The truth is that the pamphlet is mostly dull, a ponderous parody. Its merit today is that it has served Mr Jackson for an excellent and entertaining piece of detective work. In its present form, with this foreword, ‘English notes’ must have a place on the shelves of every collector of Dickens or of Poe.”
+ − Nation 111:382 O 6 ’20 410w N Y Times p9 Ag 1 ’20 2800w