AS editor of Graham’s Magazine, of the “Poets and Poetry of America,” and of the “Prose Writers of America,” Griswold rendered important services to American literature during its formative period. He was born in Rutland County, Vermont, February 15th, 1815. Beginning life as a Baptist clergyman, he left the pulpit for the uncertainties of literature in New York city. His career was a successful one, however. As the editor of Graham’s Magazine he patronized Poe, and after the poet’s death Griswold’s theory of his character became the subject of much literary controversy. In 1853 a New York publishing house issued an edition of D’Israeli’s “Curiosities of Literature,” edited by Griswold, with a supplement of essays on the same style on American subjects. These, perhaps, are his best work. He died in New York city, August 27th, 1857.