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acter is never perfect until it is harmonious, and truth never 

 finally revealed until it is beautiful, Poe's significance is not 

 obscured nor his work dimmed by the faults and misfortunes 

 of his life. The obvious lessons of that pathetic career have 

 been well learned; it is time to seek the deeper things for 

 which this fatally endowed spirit stood; for the light is more 

 than thi' medium through which it shines. 



CHINESE PUZZLE OF CARVED IVORY 



Given to Miss Sarah F. Miller by Poe, and by her presented to the 

 Bronx Societj of Arts and Sciences; at present <>w exhibition in the So- 

 ciety's museum in tin Lorillard Mansion, Bronx Park. 



