In examining American Reviews and Magazines, for articles on Wordsworth, I find--after much laborious search--only some insignificant notices of his poems, of no critical or literary merit. I have carefully read each article which appears in this list, and I add brief explanatory notes, indicative of the general tenor of the articles. It was disheartening to find that many of the references to Wordsworth, in Poole’s elaborate _Index to Periodical Literature_, were inaccurate and misleading; and that nearly all the articles on Wordsworth published in _Harper’s Monthly Magazine_ for 1850 were “conveyed” from contemporary English journals. 1 1801. _The Port Folio._ Vol. i. Memoranda regarding the first publication of “Lyrical Ballads” in America. 1801. December, p. 407. The Original Prospectus of “Lyrical Ballads.”[521] (James Humphreys publisher.) 1801. P. 408.[522] 1802. Vol. ii. p. 62.[523] 1803. Vol. iii. p. 288.[524] 1803. P. 320. Note on the poem beginning, “A whirl-blast from behind the hill.” 1804. Vol. iv. p. 87. Announcement that the editor wishes to obtain a copy of _Descriptive Sketches_ (1798) from some publisher or reader. 1804. P. 96.[525] 2 1802. _The Philadelphia Gazette and Daily Advertiser._ (Published by Samuel Relf.) Friday, Jan. 15, “Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.” (The publisher’s advertisement of the First American Edition.) 3 1819. DANA, R. H.[526] _North American Review._ Vol. xxiii. p. 276. In review of Hazlitt’s _English Poets_. 4 1824. _North American Review._ Vol. xviii. p. 356.[527] 5 1824. _United States Literary Gazette._ Vol. i. p. 245.[528] 6 1825. _The Atlantic Magazine_, vol. ii. pp. 334-348. 7 1827. _Christian Monthly Spectator._ Vol. ix. p. 244. (A short article on Wordsworth.) 8 1832. PRESCOTT, W. H. _North American Review._ Vol. xxxv. pp. 171, 173-176. (In a “Review of English Literature of Nineteenth Century,” is an important reference to Wordsworth.) 9 1836. EDWARDS, B. B. _American Biblical Repository._ Vol. vii. pp. 187-204.[529] 10 1836. _American Quarterly Review._ Vol. xix. p. 66.[530] 11 1836. _American Quarterly Review._ Vol. xix. pp. 420-442.[531] 12 1836. FELTON, C. C. _The Christian Examiner._ Vol. xix. p. 375.[532] 13 1836. PORTER, NOAH. _Christian Quarterly Spectator._[533] Vol. viii. pp. 127-151. 14 _Christian Monthly Spectator._ Vol xviii. p. 1.[534] 15 1837. _“Waldie’s” Octavo Library._ (Edited by John J. Smith.)[535] 16 1837. _“Waldie’s” Octavo Library._ March 21.[536] 17 1837. _Southern Literary Messenger._ Vol. iii. p. 705. “By a Virginian.”[537] 18 1837. WHIPPLE, E. P. _The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth_[538] (1837). 19 1839. _New York Review._ Vol. iv. pp. 1-71.[539] 20 1839. _American Biblical Repository._[540] Vol. i. pp. 206-239. (Second edition.) 21 1839. _Boston Quarterly Review._ Vol. ii. pp. 137-169. (A review of “Wordsworth’s Poetical Works,” London, 1832.) 22