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one who can draw us out of ourselves and make us forget our 

 dust and weariness by his dreams and illusions. We demand 

 something vastly different from this too familiar work-a-day 

 world, a world of vague ni5'steries and shadows, yet not unreal, 

 a world of necromancy whose very strangeness is its power. 

 Here is the answer to that demand. Suchw^as the weird magic 

 of Edgar A. Poe. 



