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ich human ingenuity could not decipher.
sted by several correspondents with difficult
nples of their skill, the poet actually took
e trouble to examine and solve them in
umphant proof of the truth of his theory.
In April, 1841, he published in Graham's
gazine tale of "The Murders in the Rue
orgue," the first of a series illustrating an-
er analytic phase of his many-sided mind.
is story was the first to introduce his name
the French public, being translated, and
blished as an original story by Le Commerce,
der the title of "L'Orang-Otang:" shortly
erwards it was translated, again, and ap-
ɩred in the pages of La Quotidienne, where-
on a cry was raised, a lawsuit instituted,
d ultimately the truth discovered, that Edgar
Madam
e, an American, was the author.

nnier availed herself of the interest created
this inquiry to translate several of his
ries for the French papers; whilst the Revue
: Deux Mondes, Revue Francaise and other
ding publications spoke in highly flattering
ms of the young foreigner's productions.
is gave an impetus to his reputation in
ance, which culminated in the faithfully
isemblant translations of Baudelaire, who,
Heed, spent many years of his life in an en-
avor to thoroughly identify his mind with
at of his idol Edgar Poe, and who has repro-
ced many of his stories with but little loss
vigor or originality: indeed, to the efforts
d genius of Baudelair is chiefly due the

fact that Poe's t
classic works in
tably, it may be p
writer really well
In Spain, too, Poe
and have now bec
and with the ex
subjects, such as
Prescott and Mo
Works known in th
poems and tales
lated, but it is o
attained any wide
the Germans.

In 1842 appea
Maelström," a tal
be deemed one o
idiosyncratic. It
The Gold-Bug"
untenability of t
by Griswold, and
by his copyists, t
ding a mystery
ance, as he himse
dexterously unw
ever, prove the fa
Wold's systemati
They are the sec
reils, and not the
vent the natural
Swimming in a v
to its suction, an
difficulty than 1

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
nathematical ratio in which certain letters of
he English alphabet recur in all documents of
ny length. He did not invent "The Mystery
f Marie Roget," but he tore away the myste-
iousness and laid bare the truth of that strange
tory of real life. He did not invent, but he
was the first to describe, if not to discover,
hose peculiar idiosyncrasies of the human
ind so wonderfully but so clearly displayed in
The Murders in the Rue Morgue.' "The
'urloined Letter,"
," "The Imp of the Perverse,"
nd other remarkable proofs of his mastery
ver the mental strings and pulleys of our
eing.

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Professor Wyatt, a
nection with the
only a contributor
tory to Graham's,
several years, was
Poe, and we have b
for the invariable
poet's life.

In November, 18
Roget" appeared,
Poe resigned his
viewer of Graham
fore was never st
through drunken
-the successor to
Graham's own fa
sively proves. P
I have been to start
his resignation ma
to that constitutio
time to time over
from place to plac
Eldorado of his 1
Severance from G
details that ensh
story, was proba
Poe, who had eve
Byron of mystif
bodies who weari
formation. It wa
epoch in his life t
make the acquai
man who, althou

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
ertain letters of
ll documents of
"The Mystery
vay the myste
n of that strange
invent, but he
not to discover,
of the human
rly displayed in
The
orgue."
f the Perverse,"

of his mastery
pulleys of our

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

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relent towards the
he alludes to his
in Philadephia.
Philadelphia," Gri
came acquainted
Tery quiet and g
dressed with sin
when once he sen

a period of illnes
anxious watching
I was impressed h
the air of refineme
small house in o
neighborhoods far
slightly and clea
it was so tasteful
seemed altogether
On seceding from
endeavored to sta
be entitled The
Clark, of Philade
publisher. The
been enabled to
Subscribers to sta
on a sound basi
fell through. M
Philadelphia,
probity and hon
save Griswold,
It is much to be
have prevented?
his reminiscence
to Edgar Poe.

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