Lewis Gaylord Clark's fame is inextricable from that of The Knickerbocker, a popular and respected American literary periodical that flourished between 1833 and 1860. More important, perhaps, Clark's name has been kept alive in the annals of Edgar Allan Poe. During Poe's last years, Clark lost no opportunity to vilify Poe as an immoral drunkard whose writing was inartistic. Although Clark turned out little original work himself, in comparison with many other American authors his editorial columns in The Knickerbocker each month from 1834 to 1860 total no mean bulk. They also evince an informed, if often prejudicial, outlook upon American culture as it developed during that era. British and American writers and writings, musical and dramatic concerns, and, most notably, humor occupied Clark's thinking, as borne out by the pages of his "Editor's Table." Thus, Clark ought not to be overlooked in chronicles of national letters, although he was far more...