Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

his muse is logic; his method of in
fiuencing his readers is doubt. Poes
logic deviates rarely. 1t is clear and
Ineligible, and takes possession of the
reader in spite of HIMSELF
'In our opinion" said Prof. Fortier,
at is this unfailing logic, this clear
ness, which rendered Poe SO popular IN
France. The great French writer's rec
ognized in him literary affinity.
For many years after our country
had acquired it's independence, it was
known in Europe only for its political
institutions and for its marvellous in
dustrial and commercial development
Hardly q few names of writer's had
crossed the ocean and were mentioned
from time to time, but when Poes
Raven crossed with it's immortal Never
More when the Gold Bug had shone
like star in the night, old Europe
knew that the young western republic
had given birth to true poet, to an ex-
Quisite prose writer.
"Of all the American writer's, Ed
gar Poe is the best known in Europe.
to say, of French literature who is real
ly Frenchifed, as Emile Hennequln
has said"
Germany's Tribute.
Prof. George Edward of Northwestern
university told of the esteem in which
Poe was held in Germany. He said:
The purpose of my brief address is to re-
call to memory the tribute which German
literature, and, accordingly, the German
people as whole, has rendered and is still
rendering too the genius whose hundredth
birthday we are celebrating at this time
1t is my purpose merely to show how high
ly priced Poe is in Germany, and why he is
regarded there as the typical and character
iStic American author.
Germany is the very home of what
Goethe called Cosmopolitan literature. .
There exists in Germany an almost marvel
Gus familiarity with the literatures of 9th
err nationalities. In the light of these as
sertions, the fact that the Germans regard
Poe as a most prominent American writer
nay, in general as the greatest of American
authors, assumes an unusual significance
Poe's naturalization has taken place more
slowly in Germany than in France How
ever, very important authors and historians
of literature have been his advocates, and
his Raven" at least, has found a number
of first rate transatorS. 1t is only within
the last seven years that a complete Ger
man edition of Poes Tales and Poems has
appeared with an excellent introduction by
the editor. The ten volumes constituting
'Poe's Works. by Hedda and Arthur Noel
ler-Bruck, which, taken as a unit, must be
counted as the most Important contribution
which has been made to PoeS memory III
Germany up to the present time. 1t is only
in recent years that German interest in
Baudelaire has breathed new life into the
interest for Poe. Germany made the ac
Quaintance of Poe quite as early as did
France, but there has never been found any
person among us who made the American
Poet such an object of religious alteration
! as did Baudelaire, or who, like Theophiie
Gautier discovered in him something the
like of which the world had never before
beheld, an intellectual beverage which re-
minds him of those strange American
drinks compound of fzzing, prickling soda
water, and ice, and every conceivable sort
exotic alcoholic Ingredient