GEORGE HENRY BOKER
General references for Boker, see Allibone, Lamb's Biographical
Dictionary, Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography, National
Cyclopedia of American Biography, Warner's Library of the World's Best
Literature.
Lawrence Barrett, A Professional Sketch of. By Elwyn A. Barren. Chicago:
Knight & Leonard Co. 1889. (For a review of Barrett's opening in
"Francesca," Philadelphia, see telegraphic report in the New York
Tribune, September 15, 1882, p. 15.)
Alfred Bates. Drama. Vol. XX. p. 70.
Biographical Encyclopedia of Pennsylvanians of the Nineteenth Century.
Philadelphia: Galaxy Publishing Co. 1874. p. 370.
Magazine references to Boker: Atlantic Monthly, 65: 427, March, 1890. Book Buyer, 1900, 2147. Critic, January 11, 1890; April 12, 1890; 1898, 33: 240. Harper's Monthly, 1882, 4: 633. Harper's Weekly, 1871, 15: 1173; 1890, 34: 32. Sewanee Review (J.W. Krutch), October, 1917, 25: 457-68.
Biographic du très honorable Georges H. Boker. Ministre des Etats Unis
Amérique auprès de la Sublime Porte. L'Orient Illustré Journal
Hebdomadaire, Constantinople, 22 Aug., 1874.
Reception tendered by the Members of the Union League of Philadelphia to
George H. Boker, Minister of the United States to Turkey, Friday
Evening, December 22, 1871. Philadelphia: 1872.
Cambridge History of American Literature. New York: Putnam. 1917. 1:494.
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