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The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907–21).
VOLUME XVI. Early National Literature, Part II; Later National Literature, Part I.

XIX. Early Humorists

Bibliography

GENERAL AUTHORITIES: Burton, W. E. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor. 2 vols. 1858.; Ford, J. L. A Century of American Humor. Munsey’s Mag. July, 1901.; Griswold, R. W. The Prose Writers of America. Philadelphia, 1847.; Haweis, H. R. American Humorists. London, 1882.; Leacock, Stephen. American Humour. Nineteenth Century. Aug., 1914.; Pattee, F. L. A History of American Literature since 1870. 1915.; Trent, W. P. A Retrospect of American Humor. Century Mag. Nov., 1901.
WILLIAM AUSTIN (1778–1841): An Oration, Pronounced at Charlestown … Anniversary of the Battle of Bunker’s Hill. Charlestown, 1801.; Letters from London. Boston, 1804.; Essay upon the Human Character of Jesus Christ. Boston, 1807.; Literary Papers … with a Biographical Sketch by his Son G. W. Austin. Boston, 1890.; See, also, page 369 n., above.
GEORGE W. BAGBY (1828–1883): John M. Daniels’s Latch-Key. Lynchburg [Va.], 1868.; What I Did with my Fifty Millions. By Moses Adams. Philadelphia, 1874.; Meekins’s Twinses. Richmun [sic], 1877.; Canal Reminiscences: Recollections of Travel in the Old Days. Richmond, 1879.; Selections from the Miscellaneous Writings of Dr. George W. Bagby. Richmond, 3 vols. 1884–6.; The Old Virginia Gentleman, and Other Sketches. 1910.
JOSEPH GLOVER BALDWIN (1815–1864): The Flush Times of Alabama and Mississippi. A Series of Sketches. 1853.; Party Leaders. 1855.; Mellen, G. F. Joseph G. Baldwin. Sewanee Review. Apr., 1901.; Wetmore, T. B. Joseph G. Baldwin. Alabama Hist. Soc. Trans., vol. 2, pp. 67–73.
JOEL BARLOW (1754–1812)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. IX.]
CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE (1834–1867): Artemus Ward, His Book. 1862.; Artemus Ward, His Travels. [1. Miscellaneous. 2. Among the Mormons.] 1865.; Betsey Jane Ward. Hur Book of Goaks. 1866.; Artemus Ward in London, and Other Papers. New York and London, 1867.; Artemus Ward’s Panorama. New York and London, 1869.; Artemus Ward’s Lecture [in Egyptian Hall.] London, 1869.; Sandwiches. 1870.; Artemus Ward: His Works Complete. With a Biographical Sketch by Melville D. Landon. 1875.; Artemus’s Wax Figger Show. Boston, 1881.; Artemus Ward Complete. London, 1890, 1910.; Hingston, E. P. The Genial Showman; being Reminiscences of the Life of Artemus Ward. London, 1870.; Haweis, H. R. American Humorists. London, 1882.
WILLIAM BYRD (1674–1744): The Writings of “Colonel William Byrd of Westover in Virginia Esq.” Ed. Bassett, John S. 1901.; Letters of William Byrd. Va. Mag. of Hist. and Biog. Richmond, 1916.; See, also, Bibliography for Book I, Chap. I.
LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK (1810–1873): The Knickerbocker Sketch-Book. 1850.; Knick-Knacks from an Editor’s Table. 1852.; Thorpe, T. B. Lewis Gaylord Clark. Harper’s Mag., vol. 48, p. 587.
WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK (1810–1841): The Spirit of Life. A Poem. Philadelphia, 1833.; The Past and Present. A Poem. [Philadelphia], 1834.; Poems. 1839, 1847.; An Address on the Characters of Lafayette and Washington. Philadelphia, 1840.; Literary Remains [including the Ollapodiana Papers] of the late W. G. Clark. Ed. Clark, L. G. 1844.; Willis Gaylord Clark on American Literature in 1830. [A letter to William Jerdon.] Bulletin New York Public Library, vol. 10, pp. 181–3. 1906.
WILLIAM COX (?–1851): Crayon Sketches. By an Amateur. 2 vols. 1833.
FREDERICK SWARTOUT COZZENS (1818–1869): Prismatics. By Richard Haywarde. 1853.; The Sparrowgrass Papers, or, Living in the Country. 1856.; To Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. 1857.; Acadia, or A Month with the Blue Noses. 1859.; The Sayings of Dr. Bushwhacker, and Other Learned Men. 1867.; Eulogy on Colonel Porter. 1865.; Poems. 1867.; Fitz-Greene Halleck; a Memorial. 1868.; Private Theatricals, and Wives and Weathercocks. 1880.; Sayings, Wise and Otherwise. 1880.
DAVID CROCKETT (1786–1836): Narrative of the Life of David Crockett. Philadelphia, 1834.; A Tour to the North and Down East. 1834.; Life of Van Buren. Philadelphia, 1835.; Colonel Crockett’s Exploits in Texas. Philadelphia, 1836.; Abbott, J. S. C. David Crockett. 1874.; Ellis, Edward S. Life of Colonel David Crockett. Philadelphia, 1884.
CHARLES AUGUSTUS DAVIS (1795–1867): Letters of Jack Downing … to his old friend Mr. Dwight. 1834. Another ed., 1864.; Jack Downing’s Song-Book. Providence, 1836.; Jack Downing’s Letters. Philadelphia, 1845.; May-Day in New York. 1845.; Labor, or Productive Industry. 1849.
GEORGE HORATIO DERBY (1823–1861): Phœnixiana, or Sketches and Burlesques. By John Phœnix. 1855. Chicago, 2 vols., 1897. New York, 1903.; The Squibob Papers. By John Phœnix. 1859.
PHILIP FRENEAU (1752–1832)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. IX.]
SAMUEL GRISWOLD GOODRICH (1793–1860): The Travels, Voyages, and Adventures of Gilbert Go-Ahead. 1856.; For a list of the numerous other writings of this author, see Duyckinck’s Cyclopaedia of American Literature.
JOSEPH GREEN (1706–80)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. IX.]
ASA GREENE (1788–1837): The Life and Adventures of Dr. Didimus Duckworth, A. N. Q. To which is added the History of a Steam Doctor. 2 vols. 1833.; A Yankee among the Nullifiers; an Autobiography. 1833.; Travels in America. By George Fibbleton, Esq., Ex-barber to His Majesty, the King of Great Britain. 1833.; The Perils of Pearl Street. 1834.; A Glance at New York. 1837.; The Debtor’s Prison. 1837.
CHARLES GRAHAM HALPINE (1829–1868): Lyrics by the Letter H. 1854.; Life and Adventures, Songs, Services, and Speeches of Private Miles O’Reilly. 1864.; Baked Meats of the Funeral: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Speeches, Histories, and Banquets by Private Miles O’Reilly. 1866.; The Poetical Works of Charles G. Halpine. 1869.
SAMUEL A. HAMMETT (1816–1865): A Stray Yankee in Texas.… By Philip Paxton. 1853.; The Wonderful Adventures of Captain Priest. 1855.; Piney Woods Tavern; or, Sam Slick in Texas. Philadelphia, 1858.
GEORGE WASHINGTON HARRIS (1814–1869): Sut Lovengood’s Yarns. 1867.
JOHNSON JONES HOOPER (1815–1862): Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs. Philadelphia, 1845.; Widow Rugby’s Husband … and Other Tales of Alabama. Philadelphia, 1851.; Dog and Gun; a Few Loose Chapters on Shooting. 1856.
FRANCIS HOPKINSON (1737–1791)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. IX, and Book II, Chap. II.]
JOHN JOSSELYN
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. I.]
JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY (1795–1870): The Annals of Quodlibet, a Political Satire by Solomon Secondthought, School-master.… 1840.; See, also, Bibliography for Book II, Chap. VII.
SARAH KEMBLE KNIGHT (1666–1727)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. I.]
DAVID ROSS LOCKE (1833–1888): The Nasby Papers. Indianapolis, 1864. London, 1865, 1866.; Divers Opinions, and Prophecies of Yours Trooly, Petroleum V. Nasby. 1865.; Andy’s Trip to the West. 1866.; Swingin’ Round the Cirkle. By Petroleum V. Nasby … His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things … during the year 1866. Boston, 1867.; Ekkoes from Kentucky. Boston, 1867.; The Impendin Crisis uv the Democracy. Toledo, 1868.; The Moral History of America’s Life-Struggle. Boston, 1872.; The Struggles Social, Financial, and Political of Petroleum V. Nasby. With an Introduction by Charles Sumner. Boston, 1872, 1888.; Inflation at the Cross Roads. 1875.; The Morals of Abou Ben Adhem. Boston, 1875. [Half title at head of title page: Eastern Fruit on Western Dishes.]; Deep-seated Mirth Holds a Place in Every Line. Nasby on Inflation.… Mark Twain’s Only Rival. Philadelphia, 1875.; A Paper City. Boston and New York, 1878.; The Democratic John Bunyan. Toledo, 1880.; The Diary of an Office Seeker. Toledo, 1881.; Hannah Jane. Boston and New York, 1882.; Nasby in Exile; or, Six Months of Travel. Toledo and Boston, 1882.; Prohibition. 1886.; The Demagogue. A Political Novel. Boston and New York, 1891.
AUGUSTUS BALDWIN LONGSTREET (1790–1870): Patriotic Effusions. By Bob Short. 1819. [Attributed to Longstreet.]; Georgia Scenes, Characters, Incidents, etc., in the first Half Century of the Republic. By a Native Georgian. Augusta [Ga.] 1835. New York, 1840, etc.; Know Nothingism Unveiled. [Washington, 1855.]; Master William Mitten. Macon [Ga.], 1864, 1889.; Stories with a Moral, Humorous and Descriptive of Southern Life a Century ago. Philadelphia, 1912.
JOHN LUDLUM MCCONNEL (1826–1862): Talbot and Vernon. A Novel. 1850.; Grahame, or Youth and Manhood. A Romance. 1850.; The Glenns. A Family History. 1851.; Western Characters; or, Types of Border Life in the Western States. Boston and New York, 1853.
CORNELIUS MATHEWS (1817–1889): The Motley Book. A Series of Tales and Sketches. 1838.; Behemoth. A Legend of the Mound-Builders. 1839.; The True Aims of Life. 1839.; The Politicians. A Comedy. 1840.; Wakondah; the Master of Life. A Poem. 1841.; The Career of Puffer Hopkins. 1841.; Man in the Republic. Poems. London, 1842. New York, 1846.; An Appeal to American Authors and the American Press in behalf of International Copyright. 1842.; A Speech on International Copyright. 1842.; The Various Writings of Cornelius Mathews. [1843].; The Better Interests of the Country. New York and London, 1843.; Poems on Man, in his Various Aspects under the American Republic. 1843.; Americanism. An Address. 1845.; Big Abel and the Little Manhattan. 1845.; Witchcraft. A Tragedy. 1846.; Jacob Leisler. A Play. 1848.; Moneypenny, or The Heart of the World. A Romance of the Present Times. 1850.; Chanticleer. A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family. 1850.; Calmstorm, the Reformer. A Dramatic Comment. 1853.; A Pen-and-Ink Panorama of New York City. 1853.; The Indian Fairy Book. From the Original Legends. 1856. As The Enchanted Moccasins, and Other Legends of the American Indians; compiled from the Original Sources. 1877.; False Pretences. A Comedy. 1868.
GEORGE POPE MORRIS (1802–1864): The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots.… Philadelphia, 1839.; See, also, Bibliography for Book II, Chap. V.
JOSEPH CLAY NEAL (1807–1847): Charcoal Sketches, or Scenes in a Metropolis. Philadelphia, 1837. Second Series. Philadelphia, 1849.; Peter Ploddy and Other Oddities. Philadelphia, 1844.; The Misfortunes of Peter Faber, and Other Sketches. Philadelphia, 1856.
ROBERT HENRY NEWELL (1836–1901): Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. 4 vols. 1862–8, 1871.; The Martyr President. 1865.; The Palace Beautiful, and Other Poems. 1865.; Avery Glibun, or Between Two Fires. A Romance. 1867.; Smoked Glass. 1868.; The Cloven Foot; being an Adaptation of … “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” to American Scenes. 1870.; Versatilities. Boston, 1871.; The Walking Doll. 1872.; Studies in Stanzas. 1882.; There was Once a Man. 1884.
HENRY JUNIUS NOTT (1797–1837): Novellettes of a Traveller; or, Odds and Ends from the Knapsack of Thomas Singularity, Journeyman Printer. 2 vols. 1834.
GEORGE DENISON PRENTICE (1802–1870): Biography of Henry Clay. Hartford [Conn.], 1831. New York, 1831.; Prenticeana, or Wit and Humor in Paragraphs. 1859.; Poems. Cincinnati, 1875.
JOHN SANDERSON (1783–1844): Biographies of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. 9 vols. Philadelphia, 1822–1827. [With his brother, James H. Sanderson.]; Sketches of Paris, in Familiar Letters to his Friends, by an American Gentleman.… 2 vols. Philadelphia, 1838. The American in Paris, London, 1838. French, by Lanin, Jules, 1843. As The American in Paris in the Winter; The American in Paris in the Summer, London, 1843. [Retranslation of French version.]
JOHN GODFREY SAXE (1816–1887)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. XXIII.]
JOHN SECCOMB (1708–1793): Tyler, M. C. American Literature. 1607–1765. Vol. II, p. 46.
HENRY WHEELER SHAW (1818–1885): Josh Billings. His Sayings. 1865.; Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things. 1868.; Josh Billings’ Farmers’ Allminax for the Year 1870 [et seq.]. 1870 [et seq.]. Old Probabilities Contained in One Volume. Farmers’ Allminax, 1870–1880. 1879. Josh Billings’ Old Farmers’ Allminax, 1870–1879. 1902.; Twelve Ancestral Signs in the Billings’ Zodiac Gallery. [Hartford], 1873.; Josh Billings, his Works Complete. 1876.; Everybody’s Friend. 1876.; Josh Billings’ Trump Kards. Blue Glass Philosophy. 1877.; Complete Comical Writings of Josh Billings, with Biographical Introduction. 1877.; Josh Billings Struggling with Things. 1881.; Josh Billings’ Spice Box. 1881.; Smith, Francis S. Life and Adventures of Josh Billings. 1883.; Thompson, A. P. Josh Billings. New England Magazine, n.s., vol. 19, p. 696.
FREDERICK WILLIAM SHELTON (1814–1881): The Trollopiad, or Travelling Gentlemen in America. A Satire, by Nil Admirari. 1837.; Salander and the Dragon. 1850.; The Rector of St. Bardolph’s, or Superannuated. 1853.; Up the River. 1853.; Crystalline, or the Heiress of Fall Down Castle. 1854.; Peeps from a Belfry, or the Parish Sketch Book. 1855.
BENJAMIN PENHALLOW SHILLABER (1814–1890): Rhymes with Reason and Without. Boston, 1853.; Life and Sayings of Mrs. Partington. Boston and New York, 1854.; Knitting-Work. Boston, 1857.; Partingtonian Patchwork. Boston and New York, 1873.; Lines in Pleasant Places. Chelsea [Mass.], 1874.; Ike Partington and his Friends. Boston, 1879, 1906.; Cruises with Captain Bob. Boston, 1881.; A Wide Swath. Poems. Cambridge, 1882.; The Double-runner Club. Boston and New York, 1882.; A Midnight Race. Boston, 1888.; Mrs. Partington’s Grip-sack, filled with Fresh Things. 1890.
CHARLES HENRY SMITH (1826–1903): A Side Show of the Southern Side of the War.… by Bill Arp, so called. 1866.; Bill Arp’s Letters. 1868.; Bill Arp’s Peace Papers. 1873.; Bill Arp’s Scrap Book. Humor and Philosophy. Atlanta, 1884.; The Farm and the Fireside. Atlanta, 1892.; A School History of Georgia. Boston, 1896.; Stephen Decatur and the Suppression of Piracy on the Mediterranean. New Haven, 1901.
SEBA SMITH (1792–1868): Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing. Portland, 1833. Boston, 1833, 1834. Select Letters. Philadelphia, 1834.; Letters, Written during the President’s Tour. Cincinnati, 1833.; John Smith’s Letters. 1839.; Powhatan, a Metrical Romance. 1841.; The Religion and the Superstitions of the North American Indians. 1846.; Dew-Drops of the Nineteenth Century [Anthology]. 1846.; New Elements of Geometry. 1850.; Way Down East, or Portraitures of Yankee Life. 1854, 1859.; My Thirty Years Out of the Senate. 1859.; Speeches of John Smith, Esquire, not Delivered at Smithville. 1864.
MORTIMER THOMPSON (1832–1875): Doesticks, What he Says. 1855.; Plu-Ri-Bus-Tah, a Song that’s by no Author. 1856. [Parody of Hiawatha.]; Nothing to Say. A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery. 1857.; The Witches of New York. 1859.; History and Records of the Elephant Club. 1869.
WILLIAM TAPPAN THOMPSON (1812–1882): Major Jones’s Courtship. Philadelphia, 1840.; Major Jones’s Chronicles of Pineville, embracing Sketches of Georgia. Philadelphia, 1843. As Georgia Scenes, 1880 [unauthorized ed.].; Major Jones’s Sketches of Travel. Philadelphia, 1848.; The Slaveholder Abroad. Philadelphia, 1860.; Rancy Cottem’s Courtship. Philadelphia [1879.]; John’s Alive, or the Bride of a Ghost, and Other Sketches. [Collected by Thompson’s daughter, Mrs. May A. Wade.] Philadelphia, 1883.
THOMAS BANGS THORPE (1815–1878): The Big Bear of Arkansas. 1835.; Mysteries of the Backwoods. Philadelphia, 1846.; Our Army on the Rio Grande. Philadelphia, 1846.; Our Army at Monterey. Philadelphia, 1847.; The Taylor Anecdote Book. Anecdotes and Letters of Zachary Taylor. 1848.; Lynde Weiss, an Autobiography. Philadelphia, 1852.; The Master’s House. A Tale of Southern Life. 1854.; The Hive of the Bee-Hunter. 1854.; A Voice to America [with Frederick Saunders]. 1855.; Scenes in Arkansas. 1858.; Reminiscences of Charles L. Elliott, Artist. [1868.]
JOHN TRUMBULL (1750–1831)
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. IX.]
ROYAL TYLER (1757–1826)
[See Bibliographies for Book I, Chap. IX; Book II, Chaps. II, III, VI.]
NATHANIEL WARD [1578(?)–1652]
[See Bibliography for Book I, Chap. III.]
MRS. FRANCES MIRIAM BERRY WHITCHER (1811–1852): The Widow Bedott Papers, with an Introduction by Alice B. Neal. 2 vols. 1855, 1856, 1880.; Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches. [Ed. with Memoir, by Mrs. M. L. Ward Whitcher.] 1867.
HENRY AUGUSTUS WISE (1819–1869): Los Gringos, or an Interior View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia. 1849. German, Grimma, 1851.; Tales for the Marines. Boston, 1855.; Scampavias, from Gibel Tarek to Stamboul. By Harry Gringo. 1857.; Story of the Gray African Parrot. 1859.; Captain Brand of the Schooner Centipede, a Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies. London, 1860. New York, 1864.

MARK VAN DOREN

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