The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-31
EDGAR Allan Poe, World Author. BY
Charles T. Richardson. in August
Critic" G. r. Putman's Sons, New


Critic" G. p. Putman's Sons, New
York
Professor Richardson's article IN the
Critic is part of his introduction to the
Forthcoming Arnheim edition of the WORKS
of Poe. and it contain the writer's con-
clusions as TO Poes place in the l!tera-
ture OF America and of the world 1t Is
illustrated with half-toncs from original
paintings by Mr.. Frederick Simpson Co
burn. appearing in photocravure:
rious arbitcrs of fame. writes Professor
richardson. land in the half-century
since the death Of our chief creative
geniuscs the general vote has been given
TO the singer of The Raven and the
teller of tho tale of 'Ligeia.' Said Ten
nyson: Il know several striking poems
by American poets. but / think that I'd
gar Poe is Gaking his poetry ana prose
ioEether) the most original american
genius When asked to write an epltaph
of one line for Poe's monument IN west
minister church-Sard, Baltimore, he an
ewcrcd: How can so strange at' 50
fine a genius. and so sad a, life, be eX-
nrest and comprest in one lne2 TO
Victor Hugo Poe vas the prince OF
American literature Widely as the
fame Of Poe has already spread'-says
the author of .Atalanta in CaiVoon ana
"A Forsaken Garden-'And deeply as
AZ is already rooted in Europe, II Is even
now growing wider and striking DEEPER
as time advances.
And yet no American criticism, by
r;riswold or anybody else. ever eaualiea
IGN n IL
versions. 1t will hardly be believed that
the Edinburgh Review lApr''' 1927 oe'u
such language as this:
Edgar Allan Poe was incontestahlF one
of the most worthless persons OIL Wnoih
we have any record in the worlo OIL ie'-
.ers MANY authors may have been as
,dle many as imDrovident some as oi Jim
en- and dissipated, and a few PerhalS. DO
1reacherous and ungrateful; but ne seems
ia have succeeded in attracting anu coiii-
Inning. in his own person. all the tloa'-
Ing vices which genius had hitherto SHOWN
''esii ,t,.,e ,,.l5t The
weakness of human nature mas.
imagine. its limit but the biography %
Poe has satisfied us thta the lowest ABYSS
NJ moral imbecility and disrepute "4s
never attained until he came ana s'o'''
ror+b n warning for the times TO come.
So. work is something valuable TO stu
den,s ."rhe best tales of Poe he writes,
..fni, naturally into several clearly Inafheo
divisions: The dread battle lie ana
death tL,geia.' The Fail OF INC
House Of Jsher,)',, of ratioc.hatioh
fThe Gold b.. Tho M9sle's
Of Marie Roget The Furloined Lev
,er3: of the bord2rland between SGis..s l
md ina eination CThe BaliooE-loaA'
adventure of Hans Pfaall. MS. Founo
., pcdtle.' The Facts in the Case OF
AZ y.ldemar,l: Of morals ttne Black Cat
.,rhe Tell-Ta1e Heart, The Man OF .ile
Crowd, william Wilson,; OF cumuiatiNe
horror ('Thc Pit and the HehiuiEiii j. VI
i,,,,,or i.The system of Professor Iarr ana
,3nstor rTe;her, The Man that was Used
I'm; These divisions run into each other
ara NAV be altered by various readers or
hv the same reader in his variant MOODS.
All the stories mentioned. in their several
ways. are masterpieces of clear thoush1
definite construction. answering prog
ress toward the end PROPOSED, lheis
,,,nlrtic method and their imaginative
,,ower coincide In way not elsewhere 10
i,o found in the literature of the world,
If the heart somehow seems all squeezed
,,,,t BY the mind,'-if they are markedi!
Inferior to the stories OF Hawthorne IN
deem probing Of the problems of the hui
man soul. they are superior, On the "ho!e'
sfter ali our speculation upon this Qua
r,o,iS-autfor we must conclude with the
rsychologically inclined In the words OF
a sage critic who pronounced as tSces true
epitauh: ..Out of space. out OF time. In
,hc larguage of Professor Richardson!
He the uncanny dreamer. the child af
sin and sorrow, was perpetually sane.
The Scotch-Irish or the Scot in North
Britain, North ireland. and North
America. BY Charles A. Hanna. vol
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Net $40. G. r. Putnam's Sons. New
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Mr.. Hanna says that people Of the
Scottish race. mostly born In the North
O Ireland, or their children rgrandchll-
dren. comprised about one-fifth OF the
total white population Of the American
colonies at the outbreak OF the Rerolu-
ton. In proportion TO their relative
strength they took more important
part in that struggle and in all the lead
ing events connected with American HIS
tory since that time than any other race
They furnished more than one-fourth OF
Wsshingtons generals, and more fhan
one-half OF the leading officers of the
Civil War. on both sides, as well as
large proportion Of the leading statesmen
OF the country since i17f. Including one
half the Presidents. a majority of the
great editors. three-fourths of the great
inventors, and large proportion of the
judiciary Of the Federal courts. To the
Scottish race In America belong such
men as Grant Webster. Calhoun, Full
ton. Greedy, Morse, Edison, Paul Jones
Perry, Andrew Jackson. Washington
Jrviny, Poe. Blaine. Logan. Hendricks
Houston. Crockett monroe, Watterson,
Medll. Bennett. a. T. Stewart. Buch
anan. johnson, HAYES. Arthur. Mckinley.
Benjamin Harrison Theodore Roosevelt,
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The FIRST part of the cork gives q
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10 the beginning Of the eighteenth CEN
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