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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
not belong here, though it is certainly one of the raciest of all the books in its kind. Crayon sketches (1833), by William Cox (d. 1851), an English journalist working in New York, consists of a series of amusing essays contributed to The New York Mirror, satirizing the literary infirmities of the times and hitting off well-known actors. Especially popular were the sketches of himself and the burlesque biography of the old city constable, Jacob Hays. The Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam Doctor (1833), is a mock-heroic biography of a spoiled child, in the style of broadest farce; The perils of Pearl Street (1834) tells of the fortunes and misfortunes of a country lad who comes to New York in search of wealth. Both were written by Asa Green (d. 1837), a New England physician, who moved to New York and established himself as bookseller. A clever book, hustling with action, is Novellettes of a traveller, or, Odds and
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
high University, 393 Leicester, Earl of, 140 Leigh, Frances Butler, 314 Leland, Charles Godfrey, 167 Lenore, 67 Leslie, Eliza, 398, 399 Letter to B——（Poe), 63 Letters of Major Jack Downing, 151 Lewis, Mrs., 66 Lewis Carroll. See Dodgson, C. L. Liberator, 189 Liberty Bell, by friends of freedom, the, 174 Library of American biography, the, 117 Library of Southern literature, the, 304 Life and correspondence of Joseph Reed, 118 Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. to which is added the History of a Steam Doctor, The, 152 Life and Adventures, Songs, services and speeches of private Miles O'Reilly, 155 Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington, 155 Life and Writings of George Washington, The, 117 Life in the Iron Mills, 372, 392 Life of Bret Harte, 362 n. Life of Gouverneur Morris, the, 117 Life of James Otis, 105 Life of Jesus the Christ, 217 Life of Kennedy, 58 n. Life of Lowell, 250 n., 251 n. Life of Patric<