. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. secrecy—butnever a wordvnthin it. At first he was content to say (editoriallyin the Democrat) that the Kokomo Dispatch of yester-day startles the nation and the hull creation by pub-lishing a posthumous Poe Poem, clamorously claimingthe honor of its first presentation to the world. Lack ofspace prevents us from further remark; but we willsay, however, that of all the Nazareths now at large,Kokomo is the last from which we would expect good tocome. While things were developing Riley bethought him-self of a
. The youth of James Whitcomb Riley; fortune's way with the poet from infancy to manhood. secrecy—butnever a wordvnthin it. At first he was content to say (editoriallyin the Democrat) that the Kokomo Dispatch of yester-day startles the nation and the hull creation by pub-lishing a posthumous Poe Poem, clamorously claimingthe honor of its first presentation to the world. Lack ofspace prevents us from further remark; but we willsay, however, that of all the Nazareths now at large,Kokomo is the last from which we would expect good tocome. While things were developing Riley bethought him-self of a mistake Walter Scott had made in not prais-ing the Waverley novels. Scotts silence was proof toEdinburgh that he wrote them. To avert a likemistake Riley appeared at length editorially inhis own paper,—not however till the knowinghad begun to think upon his silence with suspicion,particularly the editor of the rival paper, the Herald,who expected a rhapsody of jealous censure fromthe jaunty sheet across the way. Under the caption,The Poet Poe in Kokomo, Riley considered in detail. Andekson Democrat Office ?
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