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Show Magnificent Edition of Poe's "Raven." Parsons' has just received an elegant copy of Harper Bros.' Poe's "Raven," illustrated by Dore. It is an unusually large book, being about 15x23 inches, and of first-class mechanical make-up. The poem is commented on by Edmund C. Stedman, and the illustrations have been made by noted American engravers. It is a magnificent work, and as one turns the pages of the book the conviction convic-tion is irresistible that here two great and immortal men of genius have met Poe, the poet, and Dore, the artist. The "Raven," perhaps more than' any other of his writings, has given Poe his widest fame, and exhibited more clearly his wonderful and peculia power of imagination. The "Raven" is a poetical eccentricity found nowhere else in the vast domain of literature. Had V written but that, it would have immortalized immor-talized his name for all time to come. The association of the French artist, Gustavo Gus-tavo Dore, is exceedingly appropriate, . iiuns me poem witn aacutional interest. Dore, as an illustrator, was equally as fantastic and prolific as Poe was a writer. Dore's imagination knew no bounds, and the "Raven" proved a fitting subject upon which to lavish his grotesque conceptions. Had Poe lived to see the hidden meaning of the "Raven" wrought out; so clearly by the master hand of Dore, it would have been infinitely infin-itely more gratifying than that the entire French nation had memorized the poem, and knowing it, he might have . died happy. |