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male High School in Baltimore to erect a suitable monument over the remains of the dead poet, Edgar A. Poe. Virginia must wish well to that enterprise, for Poe was her man of mark in the literary worPoe was her man of mark in the literary world. As a critic, a story-teller and a poet, he had few equals. The Raven is one of the most exquisite lyrics in American literature. The errors and vices of Poe's life have been sufficiently cPoe's life have been sufficiently commented on. Such consolation as the small can find in discovering that the great partake of their own moral infirmities is not withheld from them in the sad career of one of the more gifted of the che traces of the tempestuous passions which hurled them upon the shore. The literary fame of Poe should be dear to his native State. Such a pearl should not be suffered to drop from her august s, of so true a temper and so keen an edge, has ever flashed in the van of Virginian letters. If Poe had been a resident of New England, he would long ago have had a memorial remembrance worthy of h