Some of the material thus appropriated by Gill I have reclaimed and inserted in this work. A comparison between the first and second edition of Gill's "_Life of Poe_" affords a curious study, since in the second he has carefully corrected the misstatements of the former from my manuscript. My friend, Gen. Roger A. Pryor, late Judge of the Supreme Court of New York, brought suit against Gill in this matter, but met with so much trouble and annoyance by reason of the latter's persistence in evading it, that it was finally, at my own earnest request, abandoned. Mr. Gill, I am informed, is still living. NOTE 2. A strange fate was that of the poet's family, all of whom were indebted to charity for a last resting place. His father, David Poe, died in Norfolk in the summer of 1811. His grave is unknown. His mother was buried by charity in Richmond, December 9, 1811. His wife was indebted for a grave near Fordham, in New York, to charitable contributions of friends. His sister, Rosalie Mackenzie Poe, died July 14, 1874, and was given a pauper's grave in the cemetery of the Epiphany Church Home, in Washington. Mrs. Clemm, his mother-in-law, died an inmate of the Church Home Infirmary, Baltimore, and was buried by the charity of friends in Westminster churchyard of that city in 1871. Poe himself, whose last days were passed in a charitable institute, was indebted to relatives for a grave. Truly a record unparalleled in the annals of Literary History. * * * * * BOOKS YOU MUST READ SOONER OR LATER _Reuben: His Book_ BY MORTON H. PEMBERTON. Cloth, Gilt lettering, 12mo. Postpaid, $1.00. Portrait in Colors. One of the funniest, cleverest, uniquest volumes of the day, it has won spontaneous and unanimous approval from reviewers the country over. Just hear what a few of them say: CHAMP CLARK.--"I haven't laughed so much since I first read Mark Twain's 'Roughing It.'" GLOBE-DEMOCRAT.--"This little book has the merit of brevity, variety and humor. It is safe to say that the book will have many readers and that it will afford much amusement." ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC.--"The book is already heading the list of 'best sellers,' and deserves to go. It is GOOD. It is the sort of thing which might move the provincial journalist to say, 'Reub, here's our hand.'" _A Scarlet Repentance_ BY ARCHIE BELL. Cloth, 12mo. Price, $1.00. One Review: "The history of one night and one day's flaming passion between a beautiful Italian woman and a handsome youth--strangers--who meet upon a Pullman car. There comes into the story all the elementary passions, hatred, jealousy, desire and--sorrow. "It is a story that will appeal to those who prefer novels in which red blood is throbbing madly. It is not for prudes, nor for parsons, nor poseurs. It's a book for men and women who have lived."--The Club-Fellow. Broadway Publishing Company, 835 Broadway, New York. Sam S. & Lee Shubert