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The. liter- lary and historical research of our day is in some cases darkening, in 'others redeeming the reputations of those dong dead, or at least reveal- dng them as victims of hereditary talnt or early environment. An in- | teresting example of the latter is a [new book entitled, "Edgar A. Poe: a | Psychopathic Study" by Johh W. Robertson, M.D. (Putnam's Sons, |New York). . Dr. Robertson, an emi- nent American neurologist, has made la careful and elaborate psychopathic investigation of the facts of Poe's life and has interpreted them in ac- cordance with such medical consid- | eration as was warranted by the {poet's inherited neurosis. While we | must regret that it 4s very unfortun- {ate that this sympathetic study of & | poet who was abnormal from his | childhood days was not undertaken long years ago, still better late than {never. Dr. Robertson expresses the | fear that perhaps hia reconstruction {of Poe's personality may be too late lto eradicate the impression formed lin the American mind by biograph- |ers and historians who have accepted |the cruel and misleading statements |of Griswold and others who have pictured the poet as being an lsh- mael and a drunken sot. 1 think every reader of this.able work will |agree-that Dr. Robertson proves con- lclusively that Poe was not & habit- jual user of drugs, nor a habitual | drunkard, but a dipsomaniac with no | delight in the drinking--rather, an aversion for it between attacks, Dr. | Robertson does not attempt to re- | store Poe's reputation to one of so- briety, but he does succeed in de- picting the poet's moral character as more human than was heretofore been supposed, It may be taken for | granted that this new light, the ght lof scientific research, on Poe's life and character will not immediately penetrate the cloud of misunder- standing and malevolent criticism that has gathered about the lonely figure of the poet, but the world is a much more charitable place than it was a generation ago, and we may safely predict that this new view of a son of the muse whose life was a long disease will be generally ac- cepted by informed opinion in a very few years. Heredity Was Unkind to Poe. Of recent years a great deal of at- tention has been pald by scholars to hereditary influence in the lves of men of genius. It {s easy to under- stand why Burns and Keats died young when we know the family his- tory of these poets and much allow- ance is made for the vagaries of By~ ron when we discover that there was {nsgnity on both sides of the house, And, as Dr. Robertson points out, heredity was extremely unkind to Bdgar Alan Poe. His great-grand- father, John Poe, was an Irish dm- migrant who arrived in America about 1745. He was a day laborer and *mamiéd a Miss McBride, who was the sister, aunt, or some relative of a certain Admiral McBride. David Poe, son of the immigrant, began life as a wheelwright; when the re- volutionary war broke out he served the republicans by acting as *'Assist- ant Deputy Quartermaster" for the City of Baltimore. It 1s sald that he supplied Lafayette"s troops with clothing, for which he was never paid, This indicates that David Pge was at the time a dry goods mer- chant. His son David incurred the father's displeasure and was disowne ed because he married an actress, a Miss Arnold. This David Poe was the poet's father. He was a man of unstable character; he became a drunkerd and depended upon the talent of his wife for his bread and butter. The actress was a brave and energetic woman, a loving 'wife and mother. Her three children were William, Edgar and Rosalie, and each showed some influence of the alcohole history Hehind them. William grew up to be a wayward youth; he was sent to sea in an ef- fort to reform him and he died in early manhood. He had a ®drilliant mind and 'wréte verse of superior quality. The daughter, Rosalie, was & moron, strong of body but mentally weak. Edgar was a genius and a 3 When Edgar was a a Mr. McKenzie who vi {afford them rellef, iil Joh Allan, who bestowed upon kim his name, but never legally adopted him. As Alan was a wealthy whole- sale tobacco merchant, the little boy had thus exchanged «the extreme of Lad escaped from bread soaked lan ed, His admiring guardian taught the little boy to drink the healths of his guests at dinner parties in. a glass of diluted wine. 'The boy would stand on a chair, raise the glass with all the ceremony of those old Dominion days, then take a sip gracefully, then with roguish laugh, reseat himself amidst the applause of the company." Poe's Excesses at College. John Alan, Poe's indulgeht guargd- fan, has been severely blamed for teaching the boy such a trick as this, but even if Edgar Allan had never touched wine in his foster-father's house, it is more than probable that the tendency inherited from his father and grandfather would have revealed its power sooner or later. His great mental gifts led Poe to the University of Virginia but he had to be removed because of his alcoholic early development of tho hereditary tvil--"Poe's passion for strong drink was as marked as for cards. It was not the taste of the beverage that influenced him; without a sip or smack of the moutt he wou'l seize a full glass, "without sugar or water, and send it home at a single gulp." Along with this passion for strong drink went a neurotic irritability. Poe was very difficult to manage, for he would brook no restraint, no discipline. He quarrelled with his guardian and left Richmond. After two years of loose and irresponsible life, Poe obtained a cadet's warrant to West Point. He entered that famous military school when he was in his twemty-first year, but his life there was character.zed by many excesses. He defiled army regula- tions and was soon expelied. Dr. Robertson says that Poe showed such an utter disregard tor all the canons of decency and morality that tie alienist must believe that such actions were the result >f =n acute mental brainstorm, induced by the abuse of alcohol. Could the facts of his %ite's history be aczurately trace ed at this time and during those two vears from 19 to 21, aoout which so little is known, they would he of great psychological value, "Such a tisease at that from which Poe suf- fered," says this author. "is most insidious in its approach. The lib- erties,indulged in youth and the lack cf restraint laid a foundation that later no will-power could overcome, and which exacted a price of misery, depression, and suffering from ity viellh 'that passes understanding," The Raven is the Symbol of Heredit- : ary Taint. * For two years after his expulsion from West Point, Poe was often ill- clad and frequently lacked sufficient food. During these years, however, Lis genius burst into full flower. He did a great deal of writing especially in the short story, that was destined to make his name immortal. His former guardian, Mr. Allan, sent him money from time to time, and as he obtained some pay for his literary work, he might have lived in com- fort had it not been for his periodi- cal fits of depression which were in- variably followed by his recourse to stimulants - "He quffered Intercur- rent attacks cof sickness," says Dr. Rabertson, "which incapititated him for days or weeks, at first infrequent tut slowly increasing in number and severity until we have a classical ple' ture of typical dipsomania, with its accompanying depressions and men- tal abnormalities. These tell the story of the evil that pursued him and continually thwarted the best of Intentions, and which made his life 1a. serles of fihaneial struggles and failures" And it should not be for- gotten that this mental disorder was reflected both in his poetry and prose. Poe never could have writ. ten such poems as "The Raven," and "The Conqueror Worm" had he not been the victim of awful depression of epirit. His "Tales of Grotesque and Arabesque' with their preterna- tural horrop"and realistic deserip- tions of mdybidness, of insanity, of murder and death also sprang from a diseased brein. From the age of twenty until his death he walked through a valley of shadow, supping full of horror, and generally misun- derstood and scorned by those with whom he came in contact. In "The Raven," the most famous of hi, poems, there is a stanza which might be fittingly applied to bis own un- ty nn poverty for luxury, but although ha | gin, the alcoholic curse was not lift- ! excesses. A classmate wrote of this | haar» weptton and, in view of what { Dr. Robertson tells us in his psycho- {pathic study, the Raven might well ibe regarded as the symbol of alco- holic heredity which cursed the poet {with mental disease. {And the Raven, never flitting, still is { sitting, still 1s sitting {On the pallid bust of Pallas just | above my chamber dgor; And his eyes have all the sceming of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him stream- | ing throws his shadow on the | floor And my soul from out that shadow that Hes floating on the floor Shall be lfted--nevermore, i A Pitiful Scene of Destitution. | Does {it not seem strange that |Poe's poems with their fascinating {melody and pleasing melancholy should have derived much of their {charm from the very agony of their |author and his wierd stories most of their force from his abnormal | taney? But how often this pheno- {menon has been repeated in the his- |tory of literature! Out of the car- {case of the dead lion comes honey, lout of death life, out cf the most jacute depression of soul, exquisite | pleasure for all lovers of the beauti- ful in song and story. It is very sad { that those who have dowered us with {intellectual treasure should have |learned a suffering what they taught iin song but sadder still is the fact |that others beside the victim of evil | predisposition, usually 'those near {and dear to him, have to pay the | penalty of this affMction. In Poe's {case those who walked with him {through the wilderness of this world were his girl wife, Virginia, and her mother, Mrs. Clemm. On May 16th, 1836, Poe was married to his cousin. At that time he was editor of "The {Southern Literary Messenger' of | Richmond, but lost his position tha [ next year because of his irregular habits. He had by this time acquir- lea a considerable reputation as a writer and soon obtained another editorial position in New York. For | eighteen months at a time he led a {more or less abstemious life, having | only two relapses in that period, but {in spite of his love for Virginia and | "Muddy," and the loving care with \which he was cherished by these de- [voted women, he was unable to free {himself from the chains of habit. | Early in 1846 he was obliged to re- [sign the editorial of "The Broadway {Journal," and for the next four | years, till death gave him "surcease {of sorrow," hjs life was an unbroken {series of disasters. And his two {good angels were doomed to partake of his sufferings. If it had not been for a public appeal made by his friends, the poet and his wife and {ber mother would have died of want. |As it was, Virginia contracted tuber- iculosis and died in January, 1847. -- His Death in a Baltimore Hospital. For three years Poe 'survived his "lost Lenore." His mother-in-law nursed him through every seizure jexcept' the last and it was not her fault that she was not with her be- pital where he obtained his release from the wheel of life. Griswold and other biographers have traced with merciless detail the lapses of Poe during his last two years, but Mrs. Olemm understood that he was not responsible and this is the view taken by Dr. Robertson, who casti- gates Griswold and shows by an ex- amination of the poet's writings dur- {ing this period that they were the |cfispring of a disordered brain. He disposes effectually of the eharge that Poe became a drug addict. He also asserts that the platonic love he exhibited for the woman with whom he associated in this closing phase was but another manifestation of his abnormal mental state. While on a visit to Richmond in Septem- ber, 1849, the poet proposed mar- riage to a Mrs. Shelton, a widow of that city, and was accapted. His friends raised a fund and he started for New York in order to bring back belongings. The incidents of that journey northward cannot be traced, but he was found three days later on the water front of Baltimore in an insemsible condition. He was re- | moved to the city hospital and after struggling in violent delirium for over three days and nights, he be- came enfeebled through his exer- tions. He regained consciousness, and, gently moving his head, ex- claimed with his last breath, "Lord help my poor soul!" He ¢iad on Oct. 7th, 1849, ---W. T. ALLISON. Literary Notes. An English book of special inter- est to Canadians is "An Autobiegra- phy" of Lady Eliabeth Butler. Lady Butler is now an old lady in her seventies, a sister of the late Mrs. Maynell, the poet, and herseM a Painter famous for "The Roll Call" and other military pictures. In 1877, Lady Batler, was Kiizabeth Thompson, married Major Butler, author of "The Great Lone Land." This book was a re. cord of the major's impressions and experiences in a trip that he made through western Canada over fifty Fears ago. It is one of the most vivid narratives of travel that this cbuntry has inspired. -- A. G. Gardiner's "Life of Sir Wil- Ham Vernon Harcourt" has just been in London, 8ir William published | Htobertson Nicol premounces it a bio- { masterpiece. "Mr. Gardi- ner," this noted 'critic, "has written one of the. half-dozen best political biographies in the English HHanguage, and ho has made a pers loved "Eddie" in the Baltimore hoy | {with him Mrs. Clemm and her few | whose maiden name nent contribution not only to peli tics, but to lterature. The skill with {which he has worked his abundant {and often irrRating material is sim- {ply amazing. The whole works into ja fine unity. Not too much has been sald and mot too little. The labcur | that must have been encountered by | [the biographer was certainly very |great, but it has been quietly faced." { --- | Edward Anthony, who conducts {"The Book. Factory" column in The |New York Herald's book section, has {with his brother Joseph Anthony | written a book of whimsical and | witty verse called "The Fairies Up- To-Date (Little, Brown and Co., New York). The famous, artist, Cheva- {lier Jean de Bosgchere has illustrat- led it in such fashion that the book ! {constitutes a remarkable piece of | color printing. Edward Anthony is an independent sort of person in his likes and dislkes--as befitsga- cols umnist. - He likes, he says, Shake- {speare, Fox's cartoons, soft collars land sleep; on the other hand, his | thumbs are turned down against "lecturing authors; dress-suits, liter- ary mutual admiration societies, authors who live at teas, authors who patronize American institutions like baseball, critics who drag in highfalutin' foreign phrases to im- press their readers, pills, people who discuss their health, the barber who put something on my hair that strat- ed my near-baldness, and people who don't like my stuff." } Cosmo Hdmilton, the author of the famous novel and play, "Seandal," and of 'The Rustle of Silk," says that "Another Scandal," which will be published next A£all, was the most difficult story to write that he had ever tackled. He says: "I started the story in New York, took it to England, continued it in Holland, in Switzerland and in France and, with a huge sigh of relief, wroie the last part in New York." Howard Vincent O'Brien makes Ned Sears, the instrugtor in chemis- try who is the hero of his new novel, "Trodden Gold," gives this profes- sional diagnosis of the ills of civili- zation: "Society is the mess it is be- cause there hasn't been any sclenti- fic effort to get its elements working together. The world cooks and boils, and instead of something good come ing out of it, what do you get? You {get an insoluble precipitate, or a gummy residue." Duckworth, the London publisher, has just brought out Hillaire Bel- loc's "Collected Verses," which con- tains all the poems which this clever versifier cares to preserve. 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