Concord New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette, 4 June 1856.

A new book by Herman Melville! He of Tahitian memory; he who in "Omoo and Typee" introduced us to many Polynesian delights; who initiated us into the mysteries of tabooing and tatooing--who fed our imaginations with glowing descriptions of feasts, fruits and Fayaway;--even this Herman Melville now gives a new collection of stories from his pleasant pen. The Piazza, an introductory sketch, Bartleby, a story we hardly know whether most sad or most laughable; Benito Cereno, a narrative that one reads with the same creeping horror which is experienced in perusing Colridge's Ancient Mariner; the Lightning-rod man, an amusing sketch; the Encantadas or Enchanted Islands, and the Bell Tower--compose this agreeable volume from an old friend.