An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

A Venerable Impostor [from the Californian]

Harte, Francis Bret. "A Venerable Impostor [from the Californian]." New York Saturday Press, February 13, 1866, 66.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The author looks across his table to see his young son. He imagines the boy to be a great philosopher-king despite the childish visage.