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London Morning Advertiser
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“[Melville’s] new work is full of brilliant descriptions, which display great powers of invention... His style is always good, and often admirable; fertile in conception, ingenious construction, playful fancy, and an unusual power of enchaining the interest, and rising to the verge of the sublime — all these are possessed by Herman Melville, and exemplified in these volumes.
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— October 24, 1851
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