Table of Contents

       Essays

       The Philosophy of Composition

       The Rationale of Verse

       The Poetic Principle

       Old English Poetry

       A Few Words on Secret Writing

       Maelzel's Chess Player

       Eureka: A Prose Poem

       Essays on American Literature

       American Novel-Writing

       Pay of American Authors

       American Poetry

       Essays of Criticism

       Criticism

       Drake and Halleck

       Bryant’s Poems

       The Old Curiosity Shop

       The Quacks of Helicon

       Exordium

       Ballads and Other Poems

       Hawthorne’s Twice-Told Tales

       The American Drama

       Marginalia

       Other Essays

       The Philosophy of Furniture

       Some Secrets of the Magazine Prison-House

       Literary Small Talk

       Peter Snook

       Palæstine

       Some Account of Stonehenge

       Anastatic Printing

       Street-Paving

       Letter to B——

       Instinct Vs Reason — A Black Cat

       Byron and Miss Chaworth

       Intemperance

       Cabs

       A Moving Chapter

       Desultory Notes on Cats

       A Chapter of Suggestions

       Souvenirs of Youth

       The Head of St. John the Baptist

       Memorandum (Autobiographical Essay)

       Other Writings

       The Literati of New York

       Autography

       A Chapter on Autography

       A Chapter on Science and Art

       Fifty Suggestions

       Pinakidia

       Omniana

       Doings of Gotham

       Letters