SOURCE: Review of The Lamplighter, by Maria Susanna Cummins. Godey's Lady Book 49 (July 1854): 84-85.

In the following review, the contemporary critic states that The Lamplighter provides enjoyable and edifying reading.

The Lamplighter

We received a copy of the first edition of this popular work when it first appeared, but only had time to give it passing notice in the then forthcoming number of the “Lady's Book.” We have been since furnished with another copy, which we are pleased, but not astonished to see is one of the “thirty fifth thousand” that have already passed through the press. We can now say that we have carefully perused this work, and have no hesitation in pronouncing it to be, in our opinion, one of the best and purest of its class that has emanated from an American mind. Too many of our writers are in the habit, when attempting to...