ich human ingenuity could not decipher. nnier availed herself of the interest created fact that Poe's t In 1842 appea fact that Poe's tales have become standar classic works in France. Edgar Poe is veri tably, it may be pointed out, the only America writer really well known and popular in France In Spain, too, Poe's tales early acquired fame and have now become thoroughly nationalized and with the exception of works on Spanish subjects, such as those by Washington Irving Prescott and Motley, are the only America works known in that country. In Germany the poems and tales have been frequently trans lated, but it is only quite recently that they attained any widely-diffused celebrity amongs the Germans. ot decipher. with difficult etually took e them in is theory. Graham's in the Rue strating an-sided mind. ce his name slated, and eCommerce, y:" shortly Lin, and apenne, whereinstituted, , that Edgar Dr. Madam rest created eral of his st the Revue se and other ly flattering productions. putation in e faithfully elaire, who, fe in an enmind with o has reprout little loss > the efforts ly due the In 1842 appeared "The Descent into th Maelström," a tale that in many respects may be deemed one of his most marvellous and idiosyncratic. It is one of those tales which, lik "The Gold-Bug" and others, demonstrates the untenability of the theory first promulgated by Griswold, and since so frequently echoed by his copyists, that Poe's ingenuity in unrid dling a mystery was only ingenious in appear ance, as he himself had woven the webs he s dexterously unweaves. The tales cited, how ever, prove the falseness of this portion of Gris wold's systematic depreciation of Poe's genius They are the secrets of nature which he un veils, and not the riddles of art: he did not in vent the natural truth that a cylindrical body swimming in a vortex, offered more resistanc to its suction, and was drawn in with greate difficulty than bodies of any other form o qual bulk, any more than he invented the Professor Wyatt, a In November, 18 It was during his brilliant editorship of Graham's Magazine that Poe discovered and irst introduced to the American public the enius of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and it was whilst he held sway over it that she conributed to its pages many of her shorter poems; indeed, it was greatly due to Poe that er fame in America was coeval with if it did not somewhat precede that won by her in her ative land. In May, 1841, he contributed to he Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post-a paper belonging to Mr. Graham, and for which Poe wrote that prospective notice of the newlyommenced story of "Barnaby Rudge," which rew from Dickens a letter of admiring acknowledgment. In this notice the poet with mathematical precision explained and foretold he exact plot of the as yet-unwritten story. e invented the of his mastery t editorship of discovered and ican public the Frowning, and it it that she conof her shorter due to Poe that val with if it did on by her in her e contributed to Evening Post-a m, and for which tice of the newlyy Rudge," which of admiring ac ce the poet with ned and foretold inwritten story. Professor Wyatt, already alluded to in con nection with the conchology story, was no only a contributor of articles on natural his tory to Graham's, but at this time, and fo several years, was intimately acquainted wit Poe, and we have his unimpeachable authority for the invariable honor and purity of th poet's life. In November, 1842, "The Mystery of Mari Roget" appeared, and about the same tim Poe resigned his post of joint editor and re viewer of Graham's Magazine; why or where fore was never stated but that it was no through drunkenness, as alleged by Griswol -the successor to Poe's editorial duties-Mr Graham's own famous letter of 1850 conclu sively proves. Poe's idea would appear t have been to start a magazine of his own, bu his resignation may perhaps be justly ascribed to that constitutional restlessness which fron time to time overpowered him, and drove hin from place to place in a vain search after th Eldorado of his hopes. The truth as to hi severance from Graham's, like so many of th details that enshroud and confuse his life' story, was probably purposely mystified by Poe, who had even a greater love than ha Byron of mystifying the impertinent busy bodies who wearied him for biographical in formation. It was shortly previous to thi epoch in his life that he had the misfortune t make the acquaintance of Rufus Griswold, man who, although several years Poe's junio 1 age, had, by many years' "knocking about he world," gained an experience of its shifts nd subterfuges that made him far more than match for the unworldly nature of our poet. According to the author of the "Memoir," his cquaintance with Poe began in the spring of 841, by the poet calling at his hotel and leavng two letters of introduction. "The next horning," he says, "I visited him, and we ad a long conversation about literature and terary men, pertinent to the subject of a book, The Poets and Poetry of America,' which Í was then preparing for the press," and he folows up this introductory interview with the uotation of several letters purporting to have een written by Poe, not one of which we shall efer to or make use of, as there is pretty posiive proof that some, if not the whole of them re fabrications! The enmity of Griswold for Poe-" the long, intense, and implacable ennity," alluded to by John Neal and Mr. Graham -is so palpable to readers of the "Memoir," hat it needed not the outside evidence which as been so abundantly furnished us to prove t, and the wonder is, not so much that the iographer's audacious falsifications should ave obtained credit abroad, as that no Amercan should have produced as complete a reftation of them as could and should have been iven years ago. Apart from deadly enmity, roused by a subject of a domestic nature, the ompiler could not forgive Poe for exposing is literary shortcomings. The only passage in which the soi-d a period of illnes |