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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 3 1 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
cult of Mr. Dooley, whose Irish-American witticisms deserve more extended mention. A remarkable type of later slang, that in vented by an author and yet perfectly intelligible to all alert Americans, reached its apogee in the work of George Ade, whose Fables in slang (1900) have been followed by several volumes of a similar method. Humorists who did not rely upon dialect for their main effect usually began on the humour of a particular locality and gradually extended their range. Miss Marietta Holley as Josiah Allen's Wife from up-state New York has for more than forty years applied shrewd observation and the homeliest common sense to the popular amusements and fashionable problems of the day. My opinions and Betsy Bobbett's (1873) and Samantha at Saratoga (1887) established her reputation as a keen deviser of ludicrous incidents and impossible social blunders. James Montgomery Bailey (The Danbury news Man ) and Robert Jones Burdette (The Hawkeye Man) attained a more than local
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
on, 199 History of the United States for schools, a, 193 History of Utah, 196 History of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, 196 His wife's father, 290 Hittell, Theodore H., 153 Hive or Beestock, 573 Hoar, G. F., 351, 363, 364, 419 Hobbes, 263 Hodder, Frank H., 134 Hodge, Charles, 201-3, 204, 209, 340 Hodge, F. W., 159 Hodgson, 251 Hoffding, Prof., 248 n. Holdsworth, Edward, 445 Holland, J. G., 38, 48, 73, 74, 75, 310, 311, 416 Holland, Lord, 454 Holley, Marietta, 26 Holman, Frederick V., 140 Holmes, Mary Jane, 69 Holmes, O. W., 5, 36, 69, 119, 305, 306, 312, 416, 472, 495, 499, 570 Hoist, Hermann von, 586 Holt, Edwin, 263, 264 Holy Bible . . . translated into the Indian language, the, 533 Holy, sacred and divine Roll and Book of the United Society of believers, the, 525 Holz, Arno, 582 Home journal, 35 Home on the range, 514 Homer, 634 Homes, Henry A., 171 n. Homo, 596 Honest dollar, an, 357 Hood, Thomas, 369 60