town, and whom I had once instinctively corrected in a
Latin quantity. But this I have been forced to omit, from its too great
length.--H. W.]

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_From the Universal Littery Universe._

Full of passages which rivet the attention of the reader.... Under a
rustic garb, sentiments are conveyed which should be committed to
the memory and engraven on the heart of every moral and social
being.... We consider this a _unique_ performance.... We hope to see
it soon introduced into our common schools.... Mr. Wilbur has
performed his duties as editor with excellent taste and judgment....
This is a vein which we hope to see successfully prosecuted.... We
hail the appearance of this work as a long stride toward the
formation of a purely aboriginal, indigenous, native, and American
literature. We rejoice to meet with an author national enough to
break away from the slavish deference, too common among us, to
English grammar and orthography.... Where all is so good, we are at
a loss how to make extracts.... On the whole, we may call it a
volume which no library, pretending to entire completeness, should
fail to place upon its shelves.

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_From the Higginbottomopolis Snapping-turtle._

A collection of the merest balderdash and doggerel that it was ever
our bad fortune to lay eyes on. The author is a vulgar buffoon, and
the editor a talkative, tedious old fool. We use strong language,
but should any of our readers peruse the book, (from which calamity
Heaven preserve them,) they will find reasons for it thick as the
leaves of Vallumbrozer, or, to use a still more expressive
comparison, as the combined heads of author and editor. The work is
wretchedly got up.... We should like to know how much _British gold_
was pocketed by this libeller of our country and her purest
patriots.

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_From the Oldfogrumville Mentor._

We have not had time to do more than glance through this handsomely
printed volume, but the name of its respectable editor, the Rev. Mr.
Wilbur, of Jaalam, will afford a sufficient guaranty for the worth
of its contents.... The paper is white, the type clear, and the
volume of a convenient and attractive size.... In reading this
elegantly executed work, it has seeme