The Balloon-Hoax / Ms. Found in a Bottle / The Oval Portrait: Poe 5

Download or read book The Balloon-Hoax / Ms. Found in a Bottle / The Oval Portrait: Poe 5 written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by Poe. This book was released on 2018-09-19 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With:EDGAR ALLAN POE By James Russell Lowell DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE By N. P. Willis THE BALLOON-HOAX[Astounding News by Express, via Norfolk!-The Atlantic crossed in Three Days! Signal Triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine!-Arrival at Sullivan's Island, near Charlestown, S.C., of Mr. Mason, Mr. Robert Holland, Mr. Henson, Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, and four others, in the Steering Balloon, "Victoria," after a passage of Seventy-five Hours from Land to Land! Full Particulars of the Voyage! The subjoined jeu d'esprit with the preceding heading in magnificent capitals, well interspersed with notes of admiration, was originally published, as matter of fact, in the "New York Sun," a daily newspaper, and therein fully subserved the purpose of creating indigestible aliment for the quidnuncs during the few hours intervening between a couple of the Charleston mails. The rush for the "sole paper which had the news," was something beyond even the prodigious; and, in fact, if (as some assert) the "Victoria" did not absolutely accomplish the voyage recorded, it will be difficult to assign a reason why she should not have accomplished it.]MS. FOUND IN A BOTTLEQui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivreN'a plus rien a dissimuler.-Quinault-Atys.