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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company)	8	0	Browse	Search
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George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America, together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published: description of towns and cities. (ed. George P. Rowell and company)	1	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)

timental pieces directed at the common heart of humanity; forty thousand copies were sold within a year and a half. Poems like Out of the Old House, Nancy, and Gone with a Handsomer man were not too good for anybody. Carleton's success foreshadows the still greater success of another journalist and public reader of his own verse, the People's Laureate, James Whitcomb Riley. Of Pennsylvania Dutch and Irish stock, the latter predominating, he was born in 1849 in the country town of Greenfield, Indiana, where his father had attained a considerable local reputation as a lawyer and orator. In his boyhood Riley was, as he says, always ready to declaim and took natively to anything dramatic or theatrical. He was fond of poetry before he could read it, carrying a copy of Quarles's Divine Emblems about with him for the sake of its feel. In later years his favourite authors were Burns in poetry and Dickens in prose. With his father he often went to the courthouse, where, being allowed

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