THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE VOLUME V
THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE VOLUME V Contents VOLUME V PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE. A TALE OF JERUSALEM THE SPHINX HOP-FROG THE MAN OF THE CROWD. NEVER BET THE DEVIL YOUR HEAD THOU ART THE MAN WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING? SOME WORDS WITH A MUMMY. THE POETIC PRINCIPLE OLD ENGLISH POETRY (*) POEMS PREFACE POEMS OF LATER LIFE POEMS OF MANHOOD SCENES FROM “POLITIAN” POEMS OF YOUTH NOTES DOUBTFUL POEMS PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE. In the internal decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles and colors. In France, Meliora proband, deteriorate sequitur—the people are too much a race of gadabouts to maintain those household proprieties of which, indeed, they have a delicate appreciation, or at least the elements of a proper sense. The Chinese and most of the eastern races have a warm but ina...