Text: Joel Benton, “Introductory,” In the Poe Circle (1899), p. 1

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Prefatory Note

The interest which the serial publication of the articles here collected has evoked, through a wide-spread constituency, has prompted me to gather them together in this way. It only remains to be said that they appeared, two of them, in Collier's Weekly; two in The Forum; one in Munsey's; and one in Truth.

It is hoped the illustrative and subsidiary features presented, not less than the temper of the discussion, may have something to offer to those who care for Poe.

JOEL BENTON

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.

August 1, 1899