Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — Bohemianism. [ARTICLE]

Bohemianism.

Art Journal. The peculiarity of the Bohemian is his nomadic bias—he is unsettled and vagrant—the Captain Dugaid DalgetSf of literature, who fights under any ag that pays. The Bohemian brethren we have to present now are of a higher grade, more methodical, more orderly, but still bearing the ear-mark of the tribe. The first we have to name is no less than famous Edgar A. Poe; famous now, but scarcely accounted in his lifetime worthy of a place in the ranks of legitimate authorship. In his “habit as he lived” he was shifty topographically; in Richmond one day, Philadelphia, then Baltimore, and again New York. His employment was uncertain, his habits irregular. At one time he works on Graham's Magazine , again on ,the Southern Literary Messenger, then he is in the Home Journal office in this city. *ln Philadelphia he projects a new critical journal to be named The Stylus , ana, after the old fashion of the Bohemians in Oliver Goldsmith’s day, he solicits subscriptions. In New York he starts the Broadway Journal , meanwhile wandering hither and thither, until he finally lands at Fordham in a cottaare on the top of a rocky mound, where his household puts on quite a comely and tidy appearance, from the**damages collected in a libel suit agaisnt a newspaper proprietor (Hiram Fuller), who died tne other day in London. He had boon companions; not many, but among them is a Bohemian brother, one Webber, author of a book entitled “Gila; or, the Land of Gold.” It was Webber who had the story to tell that Poe’s grotesque tales, now’ so celebrated, were the conceptions of his drunken moments, recorded and published when he became sober. In Poe's behalf it is to be said that he was always neat in person, closely shaved, clean shirted and well brushed. He is probably the most eminent name on the roll of American Bohemians, and may rank fairly with the most distinguished French and German graduates of that school.