Text: Anonymous, “Griswold Grilled,” The Standard (Richmond, VA), August 7, 1889, p. ?, col. ?

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GRISWOLD GRILLED.

INGRAM”S “Edgar Allan Poe: His Life, Letters and Opinions,” receives in the Jul number of the British Quarterly lengthy and high commendation in full accord with the opinion we expressed in our recent and perhaps the first review of the work which appears in American. “The character of POE,” says the British Quarterly, “not only comes out clear — emerging triumphantly from the cloud of calumny and malice with which GRISWOLD has surrounded it — but we are enabled to trace with the utmost satisfaction (if, indeed, there could be satisfaction in such a process) the motive which impelled the biographer and the machinery which he adopted for his purpose. * * * The truth is, the name of GRISWOLD should stand to all ages as the synonym of literary and moral infamy; for the man in his utter depravity was in everything consistent. Mr. INGRAM'S memoir is not only well written and interesting, but it is conceived in a true and artistic spirit. He is concerned only to exhibit POE and to portray him faithfully. He passes lightly from point to point, following him in his strangley checkered career; never becoming tedious in spite of the weight of documents and figures he has to present, and never becoming the mere panegyrist. * * * His appendices embody a gret deal of research; and in them his critical reader will find the amplist guidance to data and to the pieces justificatives. * * * We have no hesitation in ranking this among the many valuable additions to literary biography recently made, and we trust that there are few libraries in which it will not have a due place.” References to our review will show that we argued that Mr. INGRAM had fully made his case, vindicated POE'S memory, and convicted GRISWOLD. We earnestly trust that some American publishing-house will have the enterprise to reprint Mr. INGRAM'S memoir.