FOOTNOTES:
[11] A prominent American littérateur of the period. The titles of many of his books have been preserved, such as His Father's Son, The Last Meeting, A Secret of the Sea, &c.
[12] A newspaper writer of the day. He specialized in very short editorials, so notably preëminent, even in American journalism, for feeble-mindedness that these were published, simultaneously, by some fifty of the leading papers of the United States, and were read everywhere with edification.
[13] Novelists of the day; authors of Charles Rex, Janet March, Greatheart, &c.