James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . w^-. taticn, simply a touch that recalled an-other mans art. Such a touch has beenfound in: 44 Down in the night I hear them ; 14 The voices— unknown—unguessed —u That whisper, that lisp, and murmur, And will not let me rest. The characteristics which Riley andPoe had in common have been them it is possible that Rileywould not have found it an easy matterto have deceived the country with Leon-ainie. A study of this resemblance hasbeen made in the case of Poe BlackCat and Riley Tale of a Spider. One critic asserted that if a reader n

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James Whitcomb Riley in prose and picture . w^-. taticn, simply a touch that recalled an-other mans art. Such a touch has beenfound in: 44 Down in the night I hear them ; 14 The voices— unknown—unguessed —u That whisper, that lisp, and murmur, And will not let me rest. The characteristics which Riley andPoe had in common have been them it is possible that Rileywould not have found it an easy matterto have deceived the country with Leon-ainie. A study of this resemblance hasbeen made in the case of Poe BlackCat and Riley Tale of a Spider. One critic asserted that if a reader notfamiliar with either Poe or Riley weregiven the ** Scenes from Politan ** by theformer and the Flying Island ** by thelatter, he would pronounce both to be ofthe same author. ** The same similarityin conception and treatment is found inThe Black Cat by Poe and the u Taleof a Spider by Riley. There is onefundamental difference. Poe destroysthe eye of the cat with fiendish destroys an arm of the spider by

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