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Bentley's Miscellany
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“There are descriptions in this book of almost unrivalled force, coloured and warmed as they are, by the light and heat of a most poetical imagination, and many passages might be cited of vigorous thought... which would at once suffice to show that Herman Melville is a man of the truest and most original genius.
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— Volume 31, January 1852
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