Statistics for occurrence #1 of “John Phoenix” in chapter 10 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
...is gaining upon Mark Twain the humorist.
The inexhaustible American appetite for frontier types of humor seizes upon each new variety, crunches it with huge satisfaction, and then tosses it away.
John Phoenix , Josh Billings, Jack Downing, Bill Arp, Petroleum V. Nasby, Artemus Ward, Bill Nye-these are already obsolescent names.
If Clemens lacked something of Artemus Ward's whimsical delicacy and of Josh ...
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