Show I Footnotes I IBy REV THOMAS B B. B EDGAR ALLAN POE With the passing of the ears 3 fame grows but little in his native land It makes maMs but little headway in in England and tile the En- En commonwealths but increases steadily lIy in France goes to show that Poo's Poes genius was more Latin than Saxon and that between his stories and the va vard or Sa Saxon on breed of men there Is a great hiatus The Saxon Is first of all sincere and Poe was unfortunate in himself in that he had not the capacity for truth but mystified everything he touched The son of actors actorI his inherited I hi histrionic instinct prompted him bun tOnet to net act many parts until he lost the ense of his own individuality lie He applied the great force of his wonderful Imagination not only to the production of stories but to tho facts of real resi life and his morbid vanity accepted tl tIle e distortion thus produced Ills career Is a story of petty vicissitudes and Ignoble tunes of brilliant successes counteracted counteracted coun- coun by perverse and unworthy follies He was not faithful to his friends and Was driven to and fro by storms of his own raising A congenital tendency to alice ever tightening its hold upon hIm darkened his life and hastened his death In the domain of 01 intellect as applied ap- ap applied plied to literature he was a unique und and towering genius author or of some ne of 01 the tho most exquisite and fascinatIng fascinating Ing poems and many of 01 the mosi original and ingenious ever written In any country His fame traveled far beyond his own country and to- to lay he Is more read In France Rumania flu Ru- mania and parts of Russia than in America He was born bom in Boston in 1909 1809 his parents died In Richmond Va In 1815 lIe was then adopted by bythe bythe the Allans a rich Virginia familY He attended school In England till he was twelve He attended the University Of Virginia for a a. a year lost much by gambling and then completely disappeared for a year ear lie Hf enlisted as a private In the army and then was for nine months a cadet at West Vest Point but was I mi missed sed for bad conduct Mr Allan had hitherto support d him but they now quarreled an and J the young man of twenty one set setout setout i out to make a living by literature Mr J. J 3 P. P Kennedy made him Editor of a southern literary paper the tho circulation increased and ile he rr his young cousin Virginia mm Cl-mm and went to Philadelphia At thirty five he back to 10 New York YOlk writing for N. N P. P WIllis WIllis' Mirror l In 1845 ho he wrote his world Lamous famous Lam Lam- ous poem The which If he had done nothing else would have made hint him immortal The Bens Annabel Lee Leel the GoldBug Gold Hug Bug and Eureka with many shorter stories brought blought him much fame lIe was neither a humorist nor a character painter Ills His stories but seldom touch the heart They are finished like gens and of 01 last last- lag ing beauty but are arl lacking In In- In They are genie gems not flow flow- When he is at his best no writer can surpass him but In the better hetter sense his work both prose and poem is defIcient In soul Ills his genius enius was triumphant but cold Ills Ilis Raven Is the most remarkable remark remark- able abE piece of 01 work of Its type In the world and probably has not its equal Copyright Press Publishing Co New World 1929 Jo A |