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Excerpt from American Humourists: Recent and Living The following sketches of American Humorous Authors were contributed originally, in part to the Weekly Scots man, in part to the People's Friend, and were generally so well appreciated by the readers of these popular serial publications, that I am fain to believe many will be ready to welcome their appearance in the present collected and enduring form. Not all, nor nearly all, the recent and living American Humourists are laid out here, of course. Washing ton Irving, John Godfrey Saxe, Joel Chandler Harris, Benjamin P. Shillaber, Robert J. Burdette, John Habberton, and others, may, indeed, be quoted as notable omissions. But our aim was not to build a biographical dictionary of the facetious writers of the New World; simply rather to sketch and sample, amore, the handful of American Authors whose humor ous writings in recent years have most favourably im pressed the people of this country. The biographical particulars and portraits - secured in some cases at first hand - should specially interest those who heretofore have known the subjects solely through the medium of their books and detached writings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.