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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life 34 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 26 0 Browse Search
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.) 18 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 17 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Volume 2. 16 0 Browse Search
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 2 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 10 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 10 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 2, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 2 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: may 17, 1861., [Electronic resource] 10 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: November 6, 1860., [Electronic resource], Stormy meeting (search)
A Virginia author. We think by far the best things that appear in Harper's Monthly are from the pen and pencil of the gifted Virginian, Mr. Strother, who adopts the nomme de plume of Porte Crayon. His pencilings are admirable, full of life, vivacity, and humor, and he is one of the most graphic and entertaining writers of the day. We don't know a pen at once so instructive and humorous as that of this inimitable "Porte Crayon." His style is as natural, fresh, and sparkling, as one of his own mountain springs. He transfers every scene through which he passes to the canvas, so that it seems to be passing actually before the reader. Whether as an artist or a "word-painter," he is hard to beat. His descriptions and illustrations of scenes in the South are the most life- like and true to nature of anything we have ever seen, and now he is delighting the public with sketches of travel in New England, and with wonderful insight into men, manners, and habits, he is daguerreotyping tha