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Show HONOR EDGARALLAN POF “THE OCCASION OF HIS CENTENARY WILL BE FIMTINGLY OBSERVED ALL ο {NED TRY COUN κ THIS R “OVE ο «αὶ «Ὁ ῬΥ FRANCIS MADISON LAR — = Te WAS Oey iy THE FIRST MEMORIAL FRECTED TO CHARLES DICKENS LN ΖΩΝΡΩΥ͂ A [4 ΝΤ YJ WP GYyὦ)δρχ ee “4 ~’ EDGAR ALLAN POE MERICANS' who deplore | the fact that the memory of Poe has not been duly honored in a conventional way may extract a grain or two of comfort from the thought that it was not until last summer (1907) that the first mewas morial to Dickens De erected in London spite the great love of espe and Englishmen, cially of Londoners, for Dickens, it was nearly 40 years after his death will be remembered, in he died, it 1870—before a memorial of any kind was erected to his memory in the Brit ish capital. This memorial is a sim ple portrait bust, with a bronze “If the vote for Cooper gave cause for wonder, what of the insufficient tally score for Poe, whose manes prob ably will never cease to be vexed by a witling class of followers, but concern ing whose place in imaginative litera ture the world at large has not the slightest doubt? As a writer he was among the first to recognize the powers of Hawthorne; both were idealists, and if one produced no sus tained romances like The Scarlet Let ter,” the other gave voice to no lyric melodies such as “Israfel” and “The | Haunted Palace.” These artistic, beauty-haunted Poe’s failure of election ance to is many a parallel, too, another may vember of renown—of museum a4. the undertook to selec ed on of the @a 19 h task seum dale, museum yut the t Milton, wa names fi r Υ Locke, Addison, Swift, On the Pope of contrary, loud Richardson And where, Bernard Shaw ir cries of B i aske a tone stern > and fan? Thus we see that other national households ides our own have trouble in arranging their litera treasures to suit all the members of the family No one, perhaps, Hall lies or now listen that of to Sir a voice Arthur from Conan England; | Doyle, who} said of Poe in a recent article in an | English (Cassell’s) magazine: | twin as have th | said that I look upon Poe} irid’s supreme short story writer His nearest ay, was Maupassant of ud which the of one verdict On 8, rival, I should | The great Nor-| you wh he our own writers ‘a sort of of ' con us still whom could more authority on the subjec than the late Mr. Edmund Stedman, himself a poet, the write of a delightful | of Poe, and one of the hundred electors to the Hall of Fame. in the August number of ican Review he said: | the North An the congenital victim product of his native wrote to a friend in Balti | to make men too truthful, too sensi-| am a Virginian—at least | tive, too high-minded elf one, f I have resided| Standards, evidently, have changed until within i Anott vites a as Elsinore, speare. Charles since Emerson referred to Poe as/| have library of New | no| think hardly of your New England Writers for their contempt of Poe. never be able to forget 1I| that yric and the prose | Emerson called him ‘that jingle man.’ Hamlet begins with a tone | To-day a thousand read Poe where one | the scene on the platform at reads Emerson, and not to know Poe’s hardly ualed With, of course, Mr. in M« Shake-| Work is rather a disgrace.’ says: | Rupert Taylor, other immense in- | printed LL. B., in a recently “Study of Edgar Allan Poe,” feriorities, Poe cannot come into com- has this to say of Poe's privatelife: parison with of tone Shakespeare in variety| “Poe took pleasure eare’s different | fluences of home pieces are keyed to color, from ebon gold of sunlight all and development of the lecture at this was published by under fter quoting the the theory of cosmic Bond says Eureka paragraphs rtens declares that head of American lit- sums up development, brought about through condensation, of the Edgar overshadowing Allan Poe.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle his/| poe Mr.| story writer,’ whose was Maupassant.” The statement of Poe that ‘heteroSeneousness, recognizing genius from looks upon “ag the world’s supreme Charles Frederic short “nearest rival Stansbury pro- directly | nounces Poe “a brilliant genius to em- is proportional | yjate the work of whom is the despair with it forever,’ appears to contain the of great minds and the confusion notes of | is little or no reflection of it in his an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity| of Moore tells us that «poe was the least vulgar of mortals.” and that “the total effect of his work i, that of loftiness and nobility.” main in the dark side of the spectrum. | an excellent sonnet addressed to her But within his range there are great | after the death of his wife, as ‘more | and integrations.’ Noteworthy, also, is Poe's statement of the correlation Miss Myrtle Reed says that Poe «fought bravely against cruel odds.” differences in shade and always abso-| than mother In the ‘Black Cat’ he| | lute certainty of effect Consider the | gives evidence of a fondness for dovarieties of tone in the grave, somber | mestic pets. His cottage at Fordham between mental development and physical organization It is improbable Eureka’ had Mr. Rupert Taylor finds that Poe was “on every occasion a devoted and model husband colors of ‘The Fall of the House of Usher,’ the restless brilliancy of ‘The Masque of the Red Death,’ and the| sober, ordered daylight of ‘Landor’s| Was beautified by vines and flowering | |to a definite, coherent through continuous }jttle ones Mr. Charles L. heterogeneity fferentiations He] Cottage;’ or the range betweenthein- any influencein preparing the way for | ly gone to Keats tolearn siyle—the per-| Mr. Frederic Drew Bond points out plants, and ‘he kept in cages several|the reception of evo ry ideas, that Poe “had a prevision of the docand that “he 18 singing birds and tropical birds of little later; at the most such infilu-|trine of evolution,” plumage. He was as all who knew ence must have been of the slightest, entitled to an honorable place in that story writer that they fail to realize | such a likelihood some- title Eureka in which Poe since buried Mr. Maarten Poe is “at the |in Putnam anything about the matter attested on every occasion a devoted and model husband.” People in genera] are so accustomed | to regard Poe as a poet and short is lands /|ly afterward tangible shadows of ‘Ulalume,' the rich you tell me where Poe is | gloom of the ‘Raven,’ and the faceted buried? I scarcely expected the an-/| sparkle of ‘The Haunted Palace.’ As swer I have been inquiring for ever the modern world of letters has main-| He Russia, Scandinavia— erature,” and “tl Europe is quite agreed, as it has been from the first, germ of Herbert Spencer’s developed| formula: ‘Evolution is a change from said: “Can lande? Italy, verse its essence, origin, creation, present condition and destiny Short- in the softer inalthough there black to the purest | writings He dearly loved his wife Poe keeps in the | and her mother, of whom he speaks in| Germany, world which goes, nowadays, by the|that the spell of his art is felt name of the theory of evol n On wherever our own English speech goes February 1848, Poe delivered, as a| with the flags of its two great over his speculations spiritual uni-| of tone be-| Shall Continuing of the changes the Society to Poe’g| the English novelist and writer on soin an arti-| Clology, said at a dinner in Boston: “I thinks. ing the dran When Ma Maartens visited New York ner to attend the peace conference one of the first things he touched on in an interview | (in the New York Times) on literary| I bese “that jingle man Alluding to this York, an abstract of L, | disparaging comment Dr. H. G. Weils,|0n the material and ost epics and great fict of story picture, last few| attention ainter,” D f trace the tichmond writer Mr. Moore merits of an abnormal matters was the subject of Poe. he λ no charge of im land ἕ OES COTTAGE AT FORDHAMNEWYORK1 Poe wasproud of being a Virginian, | books have anyeffect at all, his tend | In 1841 more I call x unconscious of craving for stimulants, now accounted a disease, true; but what of all this beside the gift that made its shining way agai such odds—beside one’s gratitude for his crystallization of yur incho taste and for the recog nition which his poet and romance did so much to gain for the literary He produced stories be-| cause was in him to do so as nat-| ᾿ ural]; nd as perfectly as an apple | copy-book maxims of morality, but the Frederic Drew Bond points out that The status, then, of Edgar Allan ree | luces apples What a fine, | total effect of his work is that of lofti-|in estimating his character too little Poe, 60 years after, is as follows: sensitiv artistic touch it is! How| ness and nobility His men are brave | attention is bestowed on this phase Mr Edmund Cl nee Stedman easily and delicately the points are land his women are pure He is the of his work. He finds that Poe enter-| finds that Poe “is read and held as made! | least vulgar of mortals Perhaps, if tained in its brgad outlines that ideaja distinctive genius in France, Spain, morality can lie, seeing that his life, like his handiwork, was chaste as course, by πο | moonlight That he was poor and rsal commenda headstrong is true; and that he was Ruskin? wrathful fame? Ww to one against eomplaint and inquiry were heard from al] over the country as soon as it was announced Where was Dick ens Where was Thackeray? Where Robert Burns? Where were nm, Johnson and Burke? ue Where were Fiek slake knows or cares where his body Not hea When noise was every whe It tolled Increasing like a bell.’ Those who have given their votes e Hamilton surely r Franklin and have not demurred on ethical grounds 8 Wordsworth, Scott, Byron Macaulay Tennyson and This selection, means met is there one of Poe's fame? ΟΠ trustees of the mu Chaucer, Caxton, Tir Shakespeare Bacon Browning tion No he were Spenser, Gibbon Carlyle but ) name n Bi tled upon Hall representa be pa Y the if can direct the foreign pilgrim whither to repair to render his meed of reverence.” Mr. Stedman’s judgment is tus confirmed—indeed, more than confirmed, | it is strongly emphasized by Mr. Maar- | tens, who places Poe at the head of | American men of letters Let us | century con the matter of in science, termed British as the greatest and most tive in English literature place eH this day, to the cause and manner of his death, but apparently no one | temporaneous posterity;’ ποία that there is carcely an enlightened tongue into which Poe’s lyrics and tales have not been rendered—that he is read and held as a distinctive genius, in FY Spain, Germany Italy, Ru inavia—that the spell of t t is felt wherever our ywn English speech goes with the flags Is Fame! is. of its two great ove griev Last ‘ a Fame—what world, this situation, {οι the the real were κ) nan never rose to the #xtremeforce | and originality of tie American, but | are realists or dreamers ji he had itural power, an inborn inscholars livines, pay some stinct t0wards the right way of makthat voice ofthe Over’) regard t ] ffects, which mark him as a tablet his countrymen, in a be to very compeer orbs in their nineteenth stellations. And as f and w placed upon the site of Fur nival's inn, Holburn. It was at Fur aival’s inn that Dick wrote “Pick wick and it wa in a little room on the third floor, that he awoke one morning, in 1836, to find himself famous of Fame 33 J ¥%, BS ; for though his work was early trans lated into foreign languages, the failure to find fitting recognit of its true character, and the genera] obscurity in which it has lain, seems to preclude | where, isn't he? and he is your great- | fectionof word phrasing—so it has gone that he was also a profound specula-|in the est writer, isn't The greatest in- | to Poe to learn tone, the truths of tive thinker In an article entitled and in terest attaches, if one might judge keeping an atmosphere in composition.|““Poe as an Evolutionist’+ (Popular him in from the controvei., which rages to “Poe did wot set himself to write| Science Monthly, September) Mr.,' Thales Its interest long line of thinkers from Thales to Darwin.” This, then, is the testimony, on di- rect examination, of the vear 1907 in the case of Edgar Allan Poe versus lies/ those electors to the Hall of Fame light it throw m its anthor| the honora place it assigns that long to Darwin.” f who have, so their votes thinkers from| | Gentlemen, far, the FRANCIS withheld from him defense rests MADISON LARNED, |