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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY. JANUARY 26. 1902; 16 ISSUES IN LEGISLATURE his biography and productions. One would almost think that the mantle of inspiration had fallen on him when in one of his humorous songs he said: He'll hae ml3fortuncs great and 501 PERSONAL LETTERS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE.

tr I Iff I Sterling Pi VERDICT FOR A NEWSBOY. A scaled verdict for was brought in for tho plaintiff yesterday before Justice Marcan in Part II of the Supreme Court, iu the case of Harry Schoohs, an infant, against the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company. The plaintiff, who is a boy of. ten years, testified that on June liO, 1900, he was selling a paper to a man on a Sumner avenue car and that tho car starred before hp could (trt off. lCi said that the condu'.

ior then ordered him off, and because ho did not set off at oucn the conductor kicked him off. causing him to fall upon nis head, indicting a scalp wound. There were no witnesses to corroborate his icslimoiiy and the defense produced the conductor of the car and' four passengers, all of whom testified that the boy was in one end of the car and the conductor in the other, that the conductor shouted for him not to jump off. but thin the boy did so and fe'l upon his head. John Woodey appeared for the defendant and Eugene V.

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We'll a' be proud o' Robin. "But when he speaks directly to man and of man, how manly Is the sentiment and how elevating and hopeful are the well known words in which he. vindicates the dignity, aye, majesty of manhood: The. rank is but th guinea stamp, The man's the goivd for a' that. "I should trespass too long on your time if I began to quote In Illustration of the peculiar character of Burns' poetry.

What heart does not feel that 'The Cotter's Saturday 'The the 'Lament' and the address 'To Mary in with others are poems of tho rarest and highest order. What can be more wild and startling than his 'Tarn to any one well acquainted with the Scottish dialect. "Why, it has been asked, is Burns so popular? It is because he commands our sympathy and love. Love and sympathy pervade tho writings of Burns in a larger measure than those of any other poet and, hence, in my opinion, the main cause of his extreme popularity. How beautiful are some of the passages in the poems which he composed while toiling upon the field.

Wee, modest, crln tipped flower, Thou'st met me In un evtl hour For I maun crush among the atour Thy slender stem. To save thee now is past my pow'r. Thou bonnle gem. "Robert Burns had only attained his 37th year when he died. Let us think of this if we would estimate rightly what he accomplished.

Dying at the age of 37, Milton would have left us no 'Paradise Lost' or The poet Drydcn would hardly have been known, and Pope would have left unaccomplished the poems on which chiefly rested the enduring foundation of his fame. Burns has bequeathed to us his songs and that is fame enough to win for him the poet's immortality. His songs are already a part of the language of our common race, and may not our hearts thrill within us this night as we think that tho same songs are being sung wherever the English language is spoken, in the homes of Scotland, Ireland, England and America." TRANSFER CASE SETTLED. Miss Susan Bohinson Was Dragged Off a Fifth Avenue Car by a Conductor. The case of 'Susan Robinson against the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Company was settled in the Supreme Court on Friday.

On the fourth day of May, 1900, Miss Robinson, who Is a teacher in Public School No. 40, at Fifteenth street and Fourth avenue, boarded a Fifteenth street car going toward Fifth avenue and asked the conductor thereof whether he transferred to the City Hall. He informed her that he did and gave her a transfer, slating that the transfer was good for cither direction. The transfer read "Fifteenth street line to Hicks street and Fifth Avenue Elevated Railroad, south." There is no elevated railroad station at Fifteenth street and Fifth avenue, the only one being at Sixteenth street and Fifth avenue. The plaintiff boarded the first Fifth avenue ear bound for the City Hall and tendered the transfer.

The conductor refused to accept same and informed plaintiff that she must take the elevated. The conductor thereupon stopped the car and plaintiff got out and went upstairs to the station at Ninth street and Fifth avenue. The agent at the elevated station informed her that the con ductor had made a mistake, that the ticket was not good for the elevated, but was good on the surface road. She descended to the street and took the next Fifth avenue surface car and tendered the transfer to the conductor of 'the car last mentioned. The conductor informed her that it was "no good." Miss Robinson insisted that it was good and explained all the circumstances to the conductor, but he stopped the car and told her that if she did not pay he would put her off the car.

She insisted upon her right to ride and told the conductor that if he put her off he would do so by force. He thereupon took hold of her and by means of force succeeded in pulling her off the car into the street. She resisted with all her strength. The case came on for trial and all the evidence was put in yesterday, and Judge Gaynor was about to charge the jury when he was informed by counsel for the railroad company that the case was settled. It is understood that the company made quite a liberal settlement to the plaintiff.

During the trial Judge Gaynor called attention to the importance of the case, and. after the settlement was announced, asked the counsel for the defendant what he found the law to be regarding the right of a passenger to transfer to connecting branches of tho same road. Counsel admitted that the law gave the passenger the right to a transfer and that a penalty of could be recovered against tho company for the refusal to give such transfer. This is an important question and thero are numerous cases pending upon the final settlement of the law in the matter. PLAINTIFF GETS A VERDICT.

Jacob Koegel, a Bryan enthusiast, and Eugene V. Brewster, who was also the same at one time, figured in a negligence case on trial before Judge Cochran in Part of the Supreme Court yesterday. Mr. Koegel claims that on election night, 1900, he was standing in tho City Hall Square, Manhattan, looking at the election returns, when a Third avenue car came, along through the crowd and refused to stop to let him get out of tho wav. Ho testified that the crowd all yelled to "the motorman to stop the car.

but that the car kept on going and struck Koegel on the head, causing a scalp wound and other bruises. The defense claims that the accident was the result of Koegel's own negligence and that the crowd pushed him onto the sido of the car. The jury were out until 7 M. and brought in a sealed verdict of for the plaintiff. Eugene V.

Brewster, who was called as a witness by the defendant, was tho attorney for the plaintiff, and James W. Ridgeway for the defendant. Vaudev Scottish Music and Address on Life of the Poet by Thomas E. Pearsall AT AURORA GRATA CATHEDRAL "A Living Power That Knits Hearts of Scotchmen All Over the World." The Brooklyn Masonic Veterans celebrated "Robbie Burns Day" with an entertainment at the Aurora Grata Cathedral last night. There was bagpipe music Tendered by Highlanders in costume, and numerous vocal selections appropriate to the occasion.

The feature of the evening was an address on the life of Robert Burns, by Venerable Brother Thomas T. pearsall, the well known Brooklyn lawyer. Mr. Pearsall said: "On this day Robert Bums is to us, not the memory of a departed, but the presence of a living power the electric chain that knits the heart, of Scotchmen in every part of the world, stirring them not only to admiration of the poet's genius, but to love of country, of liberty and of home. I am pleased to see so many assembled to night to do honor to the shrine of the unassuming ploughman name has become a household word in our land.

Every Scotchman and true admirer of Burns has bowed with enthusiasm to the matchless power of his magic pen. His birthday is celebrated in every "land, and wherever it is observed in our own country his many warm hearted admirers do honor to his great genius. Him Tho eliief of Hards Umt swell The heart with sons." of serial flame And hlKli delicious revelry. "One hundred and forty three years have rolled away since the birth of Robert Burns aa'd more than a century since his death. I think we can safely say that so long as the Scottish dialect lasts his name and fame will bo co eval therewith.

The universal admiration and high esteem in which ho is held is marvelous. It. extends to every part of the world where Scotchmen are to be found, and, indeed, my friends, where they are not to be found. His worldwide fame now claims our attention. There is a pretty impromptu by James Montgomery, in which he says of Burns: He passed through life's tempestuous night A brilliant trembling Northern Light.

Tiiroufrli after years lie shines from far A fixed un. ettini; Polar Star. "To that star, clear and bright, after the lapse of more than a century, many eyes are now turned. No poet of any age or country has obtained the same position in popular admiration and affection as Burns. Truly it was said by Wilson a noble and appro priate eulogist of such a man that 'Burns was by far the greatest poet who ever sprung from the bosom of the people and lived and died iu humble "However humble the household In which Burns grew up to manhood, it was not without its advantages; his father was a model of humble intelligence and worth.

We behold him and his family at their simple evening devotions, so touchingly and beautifully described in 'The Cotter's Saturday as reading to his gathering houoe hoid from 'the big ha' and offering the family prayer, so impressive in its simple solemnity: That Ho who stills the raven's clamerous nest. And decks the lily fair in tlowery pride. Would Jn the way His wisdom sees the best, For them and their little ones provide; But chiefly in their hearts with sraco divine preside. "In that cottage Burns was born. Within a week his birth the 'auld clay bigging' was partly blown over in the night, and beneath the midnight storm and howling wind and flashing light, the infant noet and his mother wero carried to a neighboring hove! for protection a meet ushering into life of the tempest tossed soul of Burns Qt emblem of the startling combination of the wild and the tender, the terrible and the homely, which swayed his heart and inspired his muse.

"Robert Burns was barely 13 years of age when he commenced a life of hard toil, and with a stout willing heart did he put forth his young strength to help his father on the little farm he had taken for the sake of keeping his family together under hio own roof tree. He continued on the farm until his father's death, when being 25 years old, he and his brother Gilbert rented a small farm, whither tho whole Burns family removed. After two years of hard work on this farm, Burns became disheartened and thought of emigrating to Jamaica, but a volume of his poems having been published from which he realized, to him, the large sum of 20, he abandoned the idea. and mado his first journey to Edinburgh. Here the genius of the poet quickly made him known and welcomed by all classes.

It was at this time that Walter Scott, then a lame lad of IK, had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with Burns. He met him at the house of Dr. Ferguson. "Although Robert Burns associated with the liest of the land, he never resorted lo the meanness of overlooking tho child of honest poverty, and it is related of him that one day while walking with a friend in Edinburgh he met an old acquaintance very poorly dressed and stopped to have a talk. His dandy fritnd told him he was surprised ho had stopped to speak to such a shabby' looking fellow.

said the manly bard, 'do you think it was Ihe man's clothes I was speaking to his hat, his coat and his waistcoat no, it was the man within the coat and waistcoat; and. let me tell you, that man has more sense and worth than nine out of ten of my fine city "The poems of Robert Burns are to be found in the homes of almost every Scotchman and American, and I hazard tho assertion that there exists no person who is not a better and nobler being by having read AN ENCHANTING VIEW. BIG TRACTION DEAL PLANNED. Philadelphia Company May Consolidate With Organized Concern. Meeting to Be Held Monday.

Philadelphia, January 23 Tho Evening Bulletin to day publishes the following: "President John B. Parsons of the Union Traction to day sent out notices to the directors to meet him at 3 o'clock on Monday afternoon. The notice was not written, but delivered verbally to each director in order insure it reaching them. "The object of the meeting is to consider proposition from a company, composed of New York and Philadelphia capitalists, to take over the Union Tracion Company in its entirety, with underlying companies, franchises, corporate privileges and all of its real and personal property. President Parsons had been acting on behalf of the company for several weeks on the preliminaries leading tip to the proposed sale, but so far has not made known the terms suggested, waiting to secure more favorable ones.

"This he succeeded in obtaining to day and promptly sent out notices for t.ho directors to meet him on Monday. The principal proposition of the new company in to exchange its stock for that of the Union Traction Company, but on what basis cannot be obtained in advance of the meeting." If the proposed deal is successfully negotiated it will result in the consolidation of the Union Traction Company, which controls all the street railway lines in the city, and the recently organized company headed by Congressman Foerdercr and John M. Mack, a millionaire contractor of Philadelphia, which has been awarded railway franchises for all streets not occupied by car lines. BIG AIR COMPRESSOR, Which Will Furnish Power to Five Hundred Shipbuilding Tools at Once. The largest compound air compressor in use in any ship yard in this part of the country has just been installed in the new machine shop of the Morse Iron Works and Dry Dock Company, at the foot of Fifty sixth street.

It weighs five tons and will supply air at 100 pounds pressure to 500 tools. Pipes will run from this compressor to all parts of tho yard and will form a veritablo spider web, to which wire bound rubber tubes will be connected, and on each connection a tool can be used. The riveter is one of the principal tools used. It portable and easily handled by one man. The rivets are heated in a forge and when set the hammer strikes the hot iron with such rapid plows that the rivet is headed up in a remarkably short space of time.

It is estimated that with these hammers operated by the air compressor more than double the work can be accomplished in a given time. In addition to this the head of the rivet is evenly rounded and driven much tighter than could be done by the old method of wielding the hammer by hand. The drilling machine is another tool operated by the air compressor. It is In the form of an ordinary drill, and is operated by simply turning on the air. It will drill a holo through heavy steel plates in a few minutes and is estimated to work four times as quickly as a drill operated by hand.

An auxiliary compressor will be installed alongside the largo machine, to be used in case of an emergency. This machine is so arranged that it can be run in conjunction with the largo machine or alone. With the two machines running the tool capacity will be almost doubled. Among the vessels that are undergoing at tho yard are the following: The private yacht Argo, owned by Mr. Douglas of the Standard Oil Company.

The Argo will bn rebuilt from her hull and will bo finished in mahogany and teakwood. The tinv Fannie of the Texas Oil Company is having h. entire upper works rebuilt in steel and she wiU bo fitted with new tanks for burning oil for fuel in place of coal. There is on the dry dock at present the dredge Fin McCool and the steamship Wacca mau of the Coastwise Steamship Company, which are undergoing extensive repairs. The Seaboard of tho Joy line is being rebuilt, at the yards.

This is the ship that, was in collision with a coal barge of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company in ihe East Rivor some time ago. It was found ou examination that the Seaboard had sustained serious damago to her hull, and it was necessary to take away the whole under bodv of tho ship and shore her up from the keel order to make the necessary repairs. E. I'. Morse, said yesterday: "We have at present fully 250 vessels at the yard, on which wo have contracts for repairs of some description.

We havo enough work on hand at the present time to keep our men busy for months to come, and more is coming in every day." ary Jessie Basrttieii Big Sal MINORITY OPPOSITIOII Democrats Are Wary of Antagonizing Measures Advocated by the Governor. TIP TO MC KEOWN FROM CAMBCN Proposal to Adopt French Method of Using Covers of Desks for Obstructive Purposes. (Special to the Eagle.) Albany, January 25 The scarcity of issues in. the Legislature upon which the Democrats can found an effective opposition policy has seldom been more marked than during the present' session. The overwhelming defeat of Tammany last November has made the minority cautious and wary of antagonizing measures which Governor Odell has advocated, and if can almost be said that an era of good feeling prevails.

Some people about the capitol are wondering what the frequent division of the Tammany vote means. Grady, tho pugnacious, has become Grady the strategist, and just when the Senate expects from him one of his old time phillipics he is apt to be found voting for an administration bill. In order that the Democrats may not be committed against a policy which might happen or not happen to prove popular, some the other Tammany men take the trouble to vote the otlter way. This does not prove that there are quarrels in the Tammany ranks, but it does show a sincere desire no: to be caught opposing a meritorious measure simply because it is favored by the administration. For instance.

Senator Grady the other d.ty mado oho of the strongest speeches of the session for the governor's mortgage tax hill. The remark of a Fusion Assemblyman from Manhattan gave him a text that he employed to advantage. While he voted against tnc measure to delay the granting of a divorce decree for six months after its hearing and. determination. Senator Trainer voted aye and i some others followed suit.

me on; was beaten and that fact was a signal for the declaration that tho governor had been beaten. it happened that Mr. Odell advocated the measure on the representation of the State and City Bar Associations, that it would materially lessen the number of divorces sought in the courts by mismated pairs. The facts are that in this case Senator Brackcft gave the signal for attack and that Grady seized It. The governor is less chagrined over, the defeat than the able lawyers who urged the bill.

Nobody in legislative circles hero believes that an important political issue can be made of the advocacy or resistance to most of the governor's proposals. I Never was there such a dearth of political sensations at Albany as now, and it is no fault of the sensational press either. Every I r.ign of a compromise on details of legisla tic.n is heralded as a back down on Governor Odell's part. So smoothly did matters run last year that the least yielding on points was stated to be a sign a Piatt conspiracy to discredit the chief executive and deprive him of a renomination. The fact that, in all i administrations and in every session bills have been amended with an eye to concilia I tion local or state sentiment is lost sight cf.

This is particularly true of the lunacy b.il. l.i its present lorm that measure has been so amended as to retain the local boards of managers of the state hospitals with some of their present powers. The difference made by the amendment is not worthy of mention. It is in name only. It the bill passes the good features of tho pres eiit system wili be retained that Is.

the en listing of local interest in the hospitals and frequent inspection by men and women of intelligence But local influence in behalf of certain grocers and dealers will fail to count, as it used todo. The point, is tha't the watchful critics of the Governor who want to see him make a false step are out of tcmner because he will allow himself to change his mind. It is all very amusing to who, remarking on this despotism, the other day said: "It may be F.trange, but it is a fact that the Governor is just as apt to change his mind as anybody else Assemblyman John McKeown of Brooklyn, who is just now the acting leader of tho Democrats in the lower house, is one of the most experienced parliamentarians in Albany. He. had his initial training in ihc Kings County Board of Supervisors and his education has teen perfected by a long experience in Albany.

McKeown is a dangerous antagonist on points of procedure and he has a wide knowledge of the 'business end of the state government. He. however, does not waste much lime in opposing bills simply for the sake of opposition. Beside it is a rather hopeless task to hold up a majority of two to one. Mr.

McKeown is fertile in strategy when a bill comes along that is worth opposing, and it was a rather novel sugger that the French Amba ssador, M. made io him the other day on the occasion or his visit to Albany. In France they have many schemes for throwing ihe t'hamber of Deputies Into confusion and obstructing business. Mr. McKeown was named as ono of a committee to escort the distinguished diplomat to the Assembly chamber.

He was introduced to the Frenchman as the minority leader and it seemed rather strange to M. Cambon that McKeown and Kelsey, the majority representative, should be on such friendly terms. "What chance do they give you for obstruction?" asked tho diplomat. "Very little," replied Mr. McKeown.

"The majority are two to one, you know, and we can scarcely make enough noise to bo heard." "Noise, noise; oh. oul; what about your desk leeds (cover)?" The diplomat explained that In tho French Chamber Deputies the minority could always make noise enough by "lifting and letting fall tho covers of i.h desks to prevent the President from being heard. This has given Mr. McKeown a new idea he proposes to havo special appropria tion bill caused for tha approved French style of desks to replace the present ones, which have stationary tops. Hobart Krura of Srltohnrlo Is ono of tho most jileturesquo figures In the State Senate and one of tho wittiest.

He is a man advanced years and one of the old war horses of the Republican party. But the other evening ho was obliged to yield to a colored porter at tho Ten Hotel. Thero as a dinner there which tho Senator at tonded. The Schoharie man came in late and forgot to get a check for his hat In the ante room of one of the privato dining rooms where the dinner was given. On leaving at a late hour, ho approached the colored man, who, with considerable politeness and without a moment's delay, Jiandod to him his broad, old fashioned beaver.

"liow did you know that is my hat? queried tho Senator. "Didn't know it, sir," was the reply. "How did you come to give it to me, then?" Well, yo see, sir, dat de one you gave me." The Senator thinks the story is good enough to tell even in Schohario Count MC XINLEY'S EIBTHDAY. Hempstead, L. January 25 James S.

Cooley, school commissioner of Nassau Cnvjutv. has requested the superintendents cf all tho Nassau County schools to fittingly observe tha birthday of tho late President o'i Wednesday, January 21), holding memorial exorcises and otherwise paying a trlb of respect to tho memory cif the martyred McKinloy. A suitable programme Is bs'BB nropared by Bzra Fred Knapp. super ili'tendent of the Hempstead High School. 1 A valUMblo deg.

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They Throw Strong Sidelights Upon the Daily Life of the Poet. WRITTEN TO HIS PUBLISHER. Letters Unearthed During Hecent Cataloguing of Duyckinck Collection in New York Libra ry. During a recent of the Duyckinck collection of books and manuscripts in the New York Public Library a number of the personal letters of the poet Edgar Allan Poe to E. A.

Duyckinck, the publisher, were found. These letters have never been published. Some of them are intensely interesting, throwing strong side lights, as they do, upon the daily life of the man who has been judged by foreign critics the greatest of American poets. The text of several of the letter's, which were written during the years 1S 15 40, are here given: Thursday Morning 13th 1845). 85 Amity St.

My Dear Mr. Duyckinck: For the first time during two months I find myself entirely myself dreadfully sick and depressed, but still myself. I seem to have' just awakened from some horrible dream, in which all was confusion, and suffering relieved only by the constant sense of your kindness, and that of one or two other considerate friends. I really believe that I have been madbut indeed I have had abundant reason to be so. I have made up my mind to a step which will preserve me, for the future, from at least the greater portion of the troubles which have beset me.

In the meantime, I have need of the most active exertion to extricate myself from the embarrassments into which I have already fallen and my object in writing you this note is (once again), to beg your aid. Of course I need not say to you that my most urgent trouble is the want of ready money. I And that what I said to you about the prospects of the B. J. is strictly correct.

The most trifling immediate relief would put it on an excellent footing. All that i want is time in which to look about me; and I think that, it is in your power to afford me this. I have already drawn from Mr. Wiley, first $30 then 10 (from yourself) then 50 (on account of the then 20 (when I went to Boston) and finally 25 in all 135. Mr.

Wiley owes me, for the Poems, 75, and admitting that 1500 of the Tales have been sold, and that I am to receive 8 cts a copy the amount which you named, if I remember admitting this, he will owe me $120. on them: in all 195. Deducting what I have received there is a balance of 60 in my favor. If I understood you, a few days ago, Mr. W.

was to settle with me in February. Now, you will already have anticipated my request. It Is that you would ask Mr. W. to give me, to day, in lieu of all farther claim, a certain sum whatever he may think advisable.

So dreadfully am I pressed, that I would willingly take even the $60 actually due, (in lieu of all farther demand) than wait until February: but I am sure that you will do the best for me that you can. Please send your answer to 85 Amity St. and believe me with the most sincere friendship and ardent gratitude Yours EDGAR A. POE. Thursday Morning (Nov.

13? 1845). My Dear Mr. Duyckinck, I am still dreadfully unwell, and fear that I shall be very seriously ill. Some matters of domestic affliction have also happened which deprive me of what little energy I have left and I have resolved to give up the B. Journal and retire to the country for six months, or perhaps a year, as the sole means of recruiting my health and spirits.

Is it not possible that yourself or Mr Matthews might give me a trifle for my interest in the paper? Or, if this cannot be effected, might I venture to ask you for an advance of $50 on the faith of the "American which I will finish as soon as possible. If you could oblige me in this manner I would feel myself under the deepest obligation. Will you be so kind as to reply by the bearer. Most sincerely yours EDGAR A. POE.

Modern authors who have had qualms of conscience because of the necessity for employing press agents or calling upon the literary editors of the daily press may find solace in this letter: December 30, 1846. Dear Duyckinck Mrs. Clemm mentioned to me, this morning, that some of the Parisian papers had been speaking about my "Murders in the Rue Morgue." She could not give me the details merely saying that you had told her. The "Murders in the R. was spoken of in the Paris Charivari soon after the first issue of the tale iu Graham's Mag.

April, 1841. By the enclosed letter from Stonehaven. Scotland, you will see that the "Valdemar Case" still makes a talk, and that a pamphlet edition of it has been published by Short Co. of London Under the title of "Mesmerism in Articulo Mortis." It has fairly gone the rounds of the London press, commencing with tho Morning Post. The Monthly Record of Science, gives it with the title, "The Last Days of M.

Valdemar. By the author of the Last Conversation of a Somnambule" (Mesmeric P.evelation). My object in enclosing the Scotch letter and the one from Miss Barrett is to ask you to do me a favor which (just at this moment) may he ot great importance. It is, to make a paragraph or two for some one of the city papers, stating the facts here given, in connection with what you know about the "Murders in the Rue Morgue." It this will not give you too much trouble, I will be deeply obliged. If you think it advisable, there is no objection to your copying any portion ot Miss B's letter.

Willis or Morris will put in anything you may be kind enough to write; but as the Home Journal has already said a good deal about me some other paper would be preferable. Truly yours. POE. In spite of the positive statement that the Poe letters have lain unread in tho archives of the New York Public Library, it is hard to believe that the originator of the modern "yellow journal" school did not get his ideas from the following letter: Fordham, March 8 1S49. Dear sir If you have looked over the Von Kempelon article which I left with your brother, you will have fully perceived its drift.

I mean it as a kind of "exercise," or experiment, in tho plausible or verisimilar stvle. Of course, there is not one word of triuh In it from beginning to end. I thought that such a style, applied to the gold excitement, could not fail ot effect. My sincere opinion is that nine persons out of ten (even among the best informed) will believo the quiz (provided the design dqes not leak out before publication) and that thus, acting as a sudden, although ot course a very temporary, check to the gold fever, it will cre ate a stir to some purpose. I had prepared the hoax for a Boston week lv called the Flag, where it will be quite thrown away.

The proprietor will. give me $15 for it ou presentation to his agent here, and mv object in referring the article to you is simply to see if you could not venture to take it for the World. If so, I am willing to take for it or, in tact, whatever you think you can afford. I believe the quiz is tho first deliberate literary attempt of the kind on record. In the story of Mrs.

Veal, we are permitted, now and then, to perceive a tone of banter. In "Robinson Crusoe" tho design was far more to please, or excite, than to deceive by verisimilitude, iu which particular merely, Sir Ed Seaward's narrative is the more skillful book. In my "Valdemar Case" (which wan credited by many) I had not the slightest Idea that any person should credit it as anything more than a "magazine paper" but here tho whole strength is laid out in verisimilitude. I am very much obliged to you for your reprint of "Ulaltime." Truly yours, EDGAR A. POE.

I p. S. If you feel the least shy about the New York. Nov. 28.

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