Salem [Mass.] Register, 26 June 1856.

This is a handsome volume of more than 400 pages and contains six of Melville's shorter stories, most of which have appeared in Putnam's Magazine. The titles of the several pieces are:--The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning Rod Man, The Encantadas, or Enchanted Islands, and the Bell Tower. The characteristics of Melville's style, and the peculiar turn of his mind are known to a multitude of readers, who will recognize in these tales their true paternity.

The publishers, Dix & Edwards, are the enterprising gentlemen under whose auspices those charming periodicals, Putnam's Monthly, the Schoolfellow, and Dickens's Household Words, appear so promptly and acceptably. They have also issued quite a number of agreeable volumes adapted to the popular demand, and in a style of neatness and beauty very creditable to their taste.