Cover -- William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text, or, the Devil and Noah Webster -- Introduction: The Man of Letters as Critic -- Part 1: Literature -- Literature's Long View -- Reviews -- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Disowned and Pelham (February 1829) -- James E. Heath's Edge Hill -- or, the Family of the Fitzroyals, a Novel (1 June 1829) -- James Hogg's The Shepherd's Calendar (15 June 1829) -- Charles R. Carroll's Address Delivered Before the Society of Friends of Ireland (1 July 1829) -- William Ellery Channing (October 1842) -- John Greenleaf Whittier's Poems (October 1843) -- G. P. R. James's Arabella Stuart (May 1844) -- Frances Anne Kemble Butler's Poems (August 1844) -- Literature in Ancient Rome (January 1845) -- Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Home (June 1845) -- Jean Paul Frederich Richter's Flower, Fruit and Thorn Pieces. Volumes 1 and 2 (June and September 1845) -- Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Translation of The Poems and Ballads of Johann Schiller (August 1845) -- Benjamin D'Israeli's Sybil, or the Two Nations (October 1845) -- Poe's Poetry (November 1845) -- Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Laneton Parsonage (April 1849) -- John Motley's Merry Mount -- a Romance of the Massachusetts Colony (April 1849) -- J. T. Headley's The Adirondack -- or Life in the Woods (October 1849) -- James Russell Lowell's A Fable for Critics (October 1849) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Kavanagh (October 1849) -- William Cowper's Poems (October 1849) -- New Novels (April 1850) -- Sir Thomas Carlyle's Latter-Day Pamphlets (July 1850) -- Henry William Herbert's Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States (July 1850) -- The Life and Letters of Thomas Campbell (September 1850) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems (September 1850).

Robert Browning's Poems (September 1850) -- Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam (November 1850) -- William Wordsworth's The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind (November 1850) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables (July 1851) -- Christopher Wordsworth's Memoirs of William Wordsworth (July 1851) -- Margaret Fuller's Memoirs (1852) -- Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (January 1852) -- Herman Melville's Pierre, or the Ambiguities (October 1852) -- Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance (October 1852) -- J. V. Huntington's The Forest (January 1853) -- Charles Dickens' Bleak House (January 1854) -- Mrs. Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford (January 1854) -- Anthons's Manual of Greek Literature (April 1854) -- Thomas Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets (April 1854) -- Thomas De Quincey's Writings (April 1854) -- Charles Kingsley's Hypatia (April 1854) -- Hudson Gurney's Translation of The Works of Apuleius (July 1854) -- Caroline Lee Hentz's The Planter's Northern Bride (July 1854) -- Phoebe Carey's Poems and Parodies (July 1854) -- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (July 1854) -- Henry David Thoreau's Walden (8 February 1855) -- Our Literary Docket-New Publications: William Cullen Bryant and Lady Morgan (20 May 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Novelists, George Eliot, James Hungerford, and Charlotte Mary Yonge (31 May 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Lord John Campbell's Shakspeare (3 June 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Charles Lever's Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier (21 June 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Anthony Trollope's The Bertrams and Doctor Thorne (22 June 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Bartholomew Rivers Carroll Jr., Hayne, and Timrod (9 August 1859) -- Our Literary Docket-Allen Hampden's Hartley Norman (20 August 1859) -- James Clarence Mangan's Poems (16 February 1860) -- Current Irish Literature from Haverty (2 October 1860).

Martin Farquhar Tupper's Poetical Works (24 February 1866) -- Leigh Hunt's The Book of the Sonnet (5 April 1867) -- John William De Forest's Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty (4 June 1867) -- John Conington's Æneid (29 June 1867) -- The Late Henry Timrod (19 October 1867) -- Charles Warren Stoddard's Poems (9 November 1867) -- Putnam's Magazine (22 January 1870) -- Part II: Civilization -- A Critical Revolution and a Revolutionary Critic -- Review Essays -- François Guizot, Democracy in France (April 1849) -- Tuckerman's Essays and Essayists (July 1850) -- Ellet's Women of the Revolution (July 1850) -- The Southern Convention (September 1850) -- Works Cited -- Index.