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

...than to authors now faded or fading into obscurity,—Milnes (Lord Houghton), Sterling, 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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