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Show Praised Edgar Allan Poe. When H. Q. Wells, the English novelist, nov-elist, was In Boston ho praised Poo at a dinner. "I think hardly of your New England writers," he said, "for their contempt of Poe. I shall never be able to forget that Emerson called him 'that Jingle man.' To-day a thousand thou-sand read Poe whero ono reads Emerson, Em-erson, and not to know Poe's work Is rather a disgrace. There Is a little Inn at1 home. It Is rather a poorly conducted little Inn. Thk landlady gets every visitor to write something about It In a kind of autograph album that she JteepH on her drastic room table. One lsItor wrote la the album al-bum many years ago: 'Quoth the raven ' Tho landlady did not understand un-derstand that quotation. She was not well up in Poe. And ever since that time she has Bhown the cryptic lino to 'every guest, entreating him to tell her, It he can, It's meaning. But the guests are always too "polite to tell her. They pretend they do not know. And hence, year after year, to every visitor that comeB, tho poor landlady with her album gives herself away." |