. American lands and letters. y to Ins treatise forlearners ; reminding ns in a degree of Goldsmith,when he wrote about Animated Nature. But ifour poet of Israfel avails himself of the laborsand print-Avork of scientists, he does it with a mostshrewd and quick apprehension of their j^arts ;and makes his own exhibit of old knowledges withthe large understanding and keen discernment ofa man who knows how to gather apt material andhow to disjjense it. He has his romantic engagements, too, withthe early magazinists of Philadelphia; with Graham(of whom Professor Smyth * tells us the eventfulstory)
. American lands and letters. y to Ins treatise forlearners ; reminding ns in a degree of Goldsmith,when he wrote about Animated Nature. But ifour poet of Israfel avails himself of the laborsand print-Avork of scientists, he does it with a mostshrewd and quick apprehension of their j^arts ;and makes his own exhibit of old knowledges withthe large understanding and keen discernment ofa man who knows how to gather apt material andhow to disjjense it. He has his romantic engagements, too, withthe early magazinists of Philadelphia; with Graham(of whom Professor Smyth * tells us the eventfulstory) — with that rollicking comic actor, WilliamBurton, who had his Gentlemans Magazine, andafterward (1848) his Chambers Street Theatre inNew York, Avhere he put multitudes into goodhumor with his Micaivier and Captain are literary relations in those days, moreor less intimate, with Lowell — working at hisPioneer ; and with Griswold, who is edging his * Philadelphia Magazine, 1741-1850, 1892. SPRING- GA RDEN. 385. Edgar Allan Poe. Front a refroduction of a dagiierreotype formerly in the possession of Stella(Mrs Estetle S. A. Leiuisj, noiu the property of John H. Intrant, Esq. way into the good graces of Mr. Graham. We note, too, the names of John Sartain (known for good work in art lines), and of Godey, and many another, in the record of Poes literary schemings25 386 AMERICAN LANDS &- LETTERS. and life ; we jjerceive that the interesting girl-wife is domiciled with the broad-browed poet ina little cottage over on Spring-Garden ways — ofAvhich Caijtain Mayne Eeid tells ns—and how thevines and roses overhung it and made of it a bowerof beauty ; and we learn furthermore, that in thatSpring-Garden bower, over Avhicli the matronlyand energetic Mrs. Clemm presided, there camesuddenly a cruel overset of all force in the prettygirlish Virginia, who seemed bleeding away herlife before the awe-struck husband. Thence camea shock to him, which he sought to mitigate — ash
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