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A Paper of All Sorts

O'Brien, Fitz-James. "A Paper of All Sorts." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. 01 Mar. 1858: 507-515.
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magazine
Genre: 
history, essay, literary criticism

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O'Brien, Fitz-James author

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Bellew, Frank [pages:513]

O'Brien states that Bellew's "imaginative power and sense of humor are not surpassed, perhaps, by any living caricaturist."

Leland, Charles [pages:514]

O'Brien describes Leland as "fantastic, and frequently inimitable."

North, William [pages:513]

O'Brien reminisces about "[p]oor North, the Republican philosopher, who hoped so much when he sought this country, and who came to so melancholy an end after he had tried it."

Thomson, Mortimer [pages:514]

O'Brien mentions Doesticks, "whose humor is entirely original, and whose only fault is that he has given us too much of a good thing."

MENTIONED IN - A Paper of All Sorts

Leland, Charles

Born in Philadelphia, Charles Godfrey Leland Leland received his early schooling in Massachusetts and Philadelphia, where Bronson Alcott was one of his teachers.

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