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 36 undoubtedly Mr. Poe, who, though not formally announced as editor, was soon proclaimed such, all over the country. As early as page 13 there are "Scenes from an unpublished Drama," by Edgar A. Poe. On page 33 is his Prize Tale, "MS. Found in a Bottle;" from "The Gift," edited by Miss Leslie. Mr. Kennedy had tried to induce Gary & Hart to publish all sixteen of Poe's Tales of the Folio Club, but they would only consent to insert the above in Miss Leslie's Annual for that year. The Messenger reproduced it and gave Miss Leslie a flattering notice.

The critical notices embrace 28 pages and some of them are trenchant and one of them murderous. That is a review of "Norman Leslie: A Tale of the Present Times," New York, Harpers. Though the work is anonymous, the reviewer speedily drags to light the author as "nobody but Theodore S. Fay, one of the editors of the New York Mirror," and then proceeds to demolish him. Among other things he says: "As regards Mr. Fay's style, it is unworthy of a school-boy. The editor of the New York Mirror has either never seen an edition of Murray's Grammar, or he has been a-Willising so long as to have forgotten his vernacular language. Let us examine one or two of his sentences at random." Here we have a "blistering detail;" a "blistering truth;" a "blistering story," and