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Show Neglected Geniui One of the Ironies of the current history of literature Is the payment of $.r,0 for a letter of Poe In which with desperate eloquence he plead his Inability to pay a debt of $f(). The Idler was written after Poe had put on the market some of those Immortal Im-mortal tales which were In his duy so little regarded that the publisher paid him nothing for them and reeret-ted reeret-ted that they had assumed the risk of publication, says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. In such transactions history repeat Itself. When Schubert dil, a mass of unpublished manu scripts he lef: was valued by 1; us , executors at about S3 us "obi n;f " i ! It Included the great "C Major Sym- j j phony," lnraluable now. What would the poor and neglected Itetr.braiidt have thought could he have envisaged the sale of his "The Mill" to a Philadelphia Phila-delphia connoisseur for $.K0 0tw7 We look back regretfully to the day when Whlsrler's most famous picture, that I of his mother, hung In an exhibition '. at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine j Arts, and nobody cared enough for It to collect the few hundred dollar I asked for the canvas. |