Bower of Taste

"[5] "The Bower printed theatrical notes, and its idea of 'Belles-lettres literature' was the usual Gothic, Oriental, or sentimental tale, and imitation of an 18th-century essay, and a tinkling or sonorous reminiscence of [Thomas] Moore or Byron.

"[6] Weekly (then bi-weekly after 1828) issues of The Bower included, for instance:[7] Representative was a review of an 1828 production of King Lear at Boston's newly established Tremont Theatre, starring Junius Brutus Booth.

"We have at considerable additional expense, presented in our last volume, four plates, all expressly designed and executed for our paper, and the encouragement offered by the public, the same number will be furnished for the ensuing year.

Snow were praised in The Bower of Taste for the 'peculiar softness in her style, a smoothness in the gradations of light and shadow, that give her prints the appearance of finished engravings.

Correct stories, character sketches, literary notices, conservative comment on fashion, some paragraphs about the Boston state, and a poetical section called 'The Recess of the Muses' made up the contents.