Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Festus” in chapter 7, page 57 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book:

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Trench, Alford, and Bailey. No English poem, it was said, ever sold through so many American editions as Festus ; nor was Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy far behind it. Translators and publishers quarrelled bitterly for the privilege of translating Frederika Bremer's novels; but our young people, who already sta...
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Festus 48 4 0 0 0 user votes
Philip Festus 6 0 0 0 0 user votes

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