A Descriptive List of Novels and Tales Dealing With American Country Life (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Green, and Agriculture, and in the accounts of local doings at Baldinsville. But this clever writer is successful not only in hitting off the prominent charac teristics of the groser phases of American civilization,he displays equal felicity of touch and keenness of wit in occasional sallies at polished society and at the follies of current literature and journalism. The chapters on Boston, new-york, and Richmond. And the romance of Only a Mechanic illustrate his talent in these particulars. The latter, which fils scarce ly two pages, is a remarkably pungent satire, and is much better calculated than any serious revue, however bitter in telling, to purge silly story-writers of their ridiculous conceit. T6 conceit,in dccd,and to puerility and imposture of all sorts, Artemus Ward displays a hearty enmity which is rooted in bi principles and a good heart. His writings hav their moral no less than their comic bearing.

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