AMERICAN HUMORISTS 
NEW publications 
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behind him will he found to be larger than 
that accumulated by any painter except Turner. 
Tun group of portraits which we preset) 
the Itt7R,u/s readers this week, contains 
faces of nine American humorists, who, i 
Imps, are more frequently before theAmeri 
pul.lic, through the press, the rostrum, 
books, than any other, although such name 
James Kussism, LOWKt.unnd Charles Dno 
AHNKit, should not be forgotten when ape 
mg of our living humorists. Of the jiortr 
before us, it is enough to say that each of tli 
are good. “P. V. Nosby" (Mr. Locke) m 
his fame in Toledo. Ohio, with his '*Confed 
atcX Roads" letters. Ho is editor of the 
Toledo I Hade, and lias recently gone into 
the general advertising business in New 
York City. Bret Hartk is a New York 
State boy, who early in life wont In Call- 
rt,? 1 " rhero he taught school ami became 
familiar with r.hoae pioneer experiences 
which be now so graphically describes, lie 
made his reputation In theOverhmd Month¬ 
ly, his poem or "The Heathen Chinee" first 
calling public attention to him. He now 
lives near New York City. Oiipurcs C 
Kerr is Mr. Newell „f Jersey City, undone 
<>l the editors of the World. He wrote a 
book«iuring the war under his nom >k plume, 
winch attracted attention. Me was once 
the husband of Miss Mu* ken, the famous 
actress, who died in Purls. Mo Is something 
of a pout u% well art Imnaun.sL VM 
(VitiNKLE " U Mr. Wheeler, also connected 
uifli the World. Ills theatrical articles, 
apicy. graphic and readable, are signed a- 
above. “Mark Twain," Mr. CfjRMisirs, has 
just returned with his wife and family from 
a tour in England. Me lives In Hartford, 
Conn. Mo was milch admired abroad Mo 
has been a resident of the Sandwich Islands 
and of California, where his “Jumping 
rro£ first, attmcted attention to him, ffo 
married a rich wife. Josn Billings is the 
son of a Poughkeepsie farmer His humor 
is quaint and noted for its bad spelling. Mo 
gives his productions to the wor 
the New Fork Weekly 
Shaw, and tie loot 
Me is said to be 
Mr. Bailey, 
known as the edit 
News. 
.ear \v )( V! T ,r , ,'r r hoi; fIlt0f 'r by Green- 
& Co. ,,,TT,KK - Heston: James U. Osgood 
. lT a/', l le,l8Uro to attention to such a 
beautiful book ns this Is-so charming in its 
matter and excellent in its illustrations. Mr. 
uittier has selected short stories from 
thirty-six or o„r best authors, contributing one 
blmsoif. In the list of authors we find such 
names as Hawthorne, Htoojnson.T. II. Ann- 
iuon, Cjoknsk.v, Dickens, Elizabeth Stuart 
iiekps, and many others well known. Merno- 
11 os child-life have been added or Mans 
«.OR tSTlAN A NPKR8KN, Madame Michelet, 
H -'r!! M AP,J RrCUTKn - CHARLES I,A MU, 
Hr on Miller, Waktkh .Scott, Frederick 
uoi (ii,as$ and Ciiari.es Dickens. This 
l*m;k has sixty-elghf illustrations, each of 
helntif M ,in ’ lrt « p,n - n, Is published in a 
beautiful and substantial manner. 
| Tlie Son ot 
AN ODD GENIUS 
Ax Irishman died, a few weeks ago, in Lon¬ 
don, whose career and attainments entitle him 
to a ruche in the annals of literature. The de¬ 
co used wa* about nrty years of age, and was 
as Odd a figure a,; one could meet. In a day's ride. 
Me was small, bill firmly knit, generally wore a. 
white hat and a dress coat, and a I wavs had 
feTontSsf C ' H " AUTZ -' p| '’''“del- 
w a ktz is the most popular 
■ . writer, and this now story 
from her pen, just translated Into English, 
-remarkably pure, fresh nrul entertaining. 
, nt " nce '"Tone interested in the for- 
Puh" k ON ‘ NEV ahd hlfi Mother 
in this IWn' 1 a' ",? 0 "V lCh t0 afcri *gKle against 
rhla life. A.S tJlO ixt orv frrriiwi < ..l. .1 . 
°coS S ®£&hi®rpon'or* 
A BOOK of pure, rare, fresh and remark¬ 
able stortes for children, selected from t he 
best authors of Sweden and Finland, and 
translated by Selma Borg and Marie 
Brown, well known as the translators of 
the SnuvAirrz novels. The stories are upon 
Hl1 to p'«.aj.(l most of them teach a good 
moral lesson. They arc just toll thing for 
American children. The book is finely 
iJJu*.tnito.d, and contains 170 pa^cs. 
*,!! "i » Dives of Sail,,,- 
• I'ranalafcoil fro,., 
id through 
His real name is 
tires and makes a lmanacs, 
a very grave, sober man. 
Mic “ Danbury News Man,” is 
nr of the Danhury(Conn ) 
a paper which contains his essays on 
cats, dogs, family mishaps, and such other 
profound topics as he treats. John Hay's 
reputation as an humorist rests uponfour 
m- live ‘ dialect " poem*, known as “Pike 
County Ballads." He is a much hotter 
writer of real poetry and good proso. Mo 
was the private secretary of President Lin- 
cokn, and has lived In Spain. Ho is now 
connected with t he Tribune, and is shortly 
to marry a wealt hy young lady in Cleveland, 
Ohio. hu Perkins" is a Mr. Lanodon 
of New York In U,o opinion of s^me hi s 
humor is not brilliant, consisting mainly of 
personal gossip and old jokes, written j„ 
the form of letters from Saratoga. 
LAURA KEENE 
Tins celebrated «- 
N. J„ on the 4th inst, 
in England, a 
this' theatre- 
October, 1K)1, 
Lyons." In 1853 she 
and appeared t~ " 
November, 1855, s| 
November 18, 1865,, 
of which she 
manager until istJ 3 . 
duced “Our Ameiican I 
immense run 
Ford’s theati 
Lincoln win 
actress died at Montclair, 
She was born in 1830. 
and first played in Madame Ves- 
in London, making her debut in 
, as Pauline in the “Lady of 
--a Came to the United States, 
I at Wullaok'a, September 20. In 
bo opened the Varieties, and 
a new theater, the Olympic, 
continued to be the lessee and 
October 18, 1858, she pro- 
» Cousin,” Which had an 
She was playing in this piece at 
hi Washington, when President 
. . cssassinatod. “The .Seven Sft- 
-. nought out by her November 28, isuo ran 
19 I'* m she visited England, and 
mce then has traveled with a company under 
her own management. She married a few yea!* 
. ° ’ and was living in retirement. Her funeral 
" accordance with her wishes, >vas yen exclt 
and the,™! heingpresent except her two nieces 
a SthoMe u ^ 61,0Mly Ie,at,ves - She died 
I* holm. Her character was Irreproachable 
mid her death is deeply regretted. ’ 
ROWTON. New York ; JDlck 
Within the covers of this 
ume the reader will find ager 
1 debates, outlines of debates am 
discussion, with reference to th 
of informal ion on each part lc 
valuable work for schools and lj 
The lAInstei- of tiraylnuds. 1 
Wood. Philadelphia: T. IK Pete, 
The stylo of this English auth 
Is so well known by her admin 
need to speak of it. This new : 
have been well received in Englu 
liXJIVLOTbISTS. 
brities. Ho once lived next door to Byron’s 
fair maul of Athens.’* When the escape of 
Napoleon from Elba was announced lie was 
dancing with Murat and hia Queen at. Naples. 
Once in London he was called upon to visit a 
young man professionally, who proved to bo 
Louis Napoleon, whom lie again visited in ex¬ 
ile at Chiselhurst. His acquaintance was not 
confined to men of the olrl World, but extended 
to this country. He was on terms of pleasant 
acquaintance with Edward Everett, Daniel 
Webster, Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln and 
many others of our distinguished men. As a, 
physician he took high rank, and published 
some valuable works. In 1853 he became Phy¬ 
sician to the Queen, and in 185;} was created a 
baronet. 
vo.ume under his arm. He was a confirmed 
book-worm. ttezzoranti was hardly a mom 
accomplished linguist. Mortimer was a gradu- 
afe of the University of Dublin, and deeply 
versed In classic lore, but he added a polish to 
his erudition by his intimacy with at least a 
dozen modern tongues. He spoke French, 
Merman, Russian, Polfslj, Spanish, Italian, 
Modern Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Irish, and 
Danish with fluency. I n his youth lie had been 
cabin-boy in an American bark, and subse¬ 
quently became a medical student in Paris,but 
leave R 011 account of his connection 
" Ifcn tlH? June I lism i’»>,“f i < ,r. 
srfr t ^ AMILTON AIUE - Boston: 
novel of society and adventure, 
easy, flowing style, after the usual 
odern romances. It professes to 
be a record of early life. 
New Mimic, 
Pond & Co 
Story," i 
Henry Smart; 
by Jacques Blumenthal, none net 
plaintive alto song, by Berthold Tours 
pab," a sacred aong, by Odoardo Barri • 
of the Moravian Nuns,” duet fo- 
alto, by Miss Lindsay; “ o Willie 
Home." song, by J. H. McNaughton ; “ Morn- 
Ing Service in C," consisting of Te Deum, Jubi¬ 
late and \ unite, for tenor8 imd ba88e#> by j 1{ 
I ciSSSZn '„ V ? nl , n ^ ® erv Ioe, H consisting of 
Lantate, Beuedlc Anhua, Bonum est and Deus 
M sereatur, for tenors and basses, by J. r 
. A. Hall, Song of the Granger," b y H P 
Dunks; • The Pat i ons of Husbandry," song,' by 
Homy Tucker; “ Nattonal Grange Quickstep " 
thA l p P ! fmS,lHt £ i 0l ' r,H ’ e ° l "posed specially for 
the I atrons ot Husbandry ; “Alla Gavotte in 
Han “ r r’ v ( BC!r a! ,0ld Toun< ’ ~*«*r and brll- 
lf Le . s Vivandicres." March Briiliante, by 
bv n d rr.r : * «»Jo P MiHtalre! 
by D. 1-. Stillman; “Mazurka," by Frederic 
Braudels; “ Nearer, my God, to Thee,” solo or 
Hiiof II ir «r r ... Ui 
GENERAL WILLIAM J. HARDEE 
We have received from Wm. A 
• 547 . Broadway : - “ Tlie Sailor’s 
an effective alto or baritone song bv 
-.^; “The Sailor Boj’s Farewell,” 
I : " Gone Before," a 
; “ Mlz- 
“ Hymn 
•r soprano aaid 
Boy, Come 
Gen. Wm. j. Hardee died in Wythevllle, V». 
on the «th. He was bom In Savannah in 1818 
He graduated from West Point in 1*18, and In 
1830 he became first lieutenant In the second 
regiment, of dragoons. He fought in the Mexi¬ 
can war, and was made a brevet major for his 
gallantry at the battle of Midelliri. lie was 
commander at West Point, and at the breaking 
out of t he war Hardee’s tactics were used in 
the L oiter] States Army. They are now super¬ 
seded by l. pton’8. When the war began he was 
lieu tenant-colonel. He was made a brigadier- 
general in the rebel army, and fought at Shiloh, 
PerrywlllQ and Stone River. He surrendered 
with Johnston’s army on April 37, 1865. At the 
close of the war he retired to his plantation in 
LANDSEER 
and th 7 8lr , E ' lwin L *»^eer is dead at last, 
Poss ldet° g lVe ? OSt th6ir lriend ’ Jt is irn ~ 
Possible to overestimate the good will toward 
<lere f i nn a C - raVe whl, ' h hia Pencil has engen- 
a red, and m some degree to his own cost • for 
ZrZ e ‘ r ,W ° r ,liS il1 that hue has 
b'mcri , y i aU o ed l,isniorIt& 1,1 "ti'er ways to 
hH ( ff k * d ' Evcry one know* the story of 
bu offering to palht a friend, who replied, “ft 
dL uT\ a thaf r!lU thing should be 
ge. LT t0 , Anrt ” typical of the 
fnw niS5 ,0 M ! Whereasln r «aUty there a re 
]I a inters that approach him as a general 
i 1 nrtul ‘ ende "«y ot his .logs. HIS 
11,0 1 • « ,d80;lp '- B were perfection, and ir 
i elnms ,n Trafalgar Square (hi, only effort* as 
'hev .rf, ?•? " ot ,iko *h® Bona of the dessert, 
''vhosat ft th ? 8e ‘ hoZoological Garden* I 
Sir Fdwbf ,-| the "‘ a3 f0Ur |,eas t0 foU1 ’ peas. | 
f ,nterSl i;x,ji,j ited 
'Rent with the brush at a very early sure 
thirteen he gained the silver medal from 1 
A TRAIT OF TENNYSON, 
One peculiar trait in the character of the poot 
laureate is his unusual shrinking from active 
lire and public view. The world knows little 
.f his life it knows him by his poems. It has 
evidently been Mr. Tennyson’s desire to escape 
observation, and he succeeds In doing so very 
t lioroughly. Few strangers gain access to film 
and consequently many ill-natured stories have 
been circulated at lift expense. One anecdote, 
however, not particularly ill-natured, will bear 
lepeating. A well-known prince of the house 
famillal ' wlth Mr. Tennyson’s 
- linking habits, yet naturally anxious to nav I 
Prof. TifNDAKL has been elected to pi 
over the next meeting of the British as: 
19 187t° 1)6 at Beif'ist, beginning on A 
Daniei, Drew carried a musket durin 
war of 1813, and it is said that even at that 
period lie understood the business of un 
