| Show OUR WARTIME WAR TIME HU DR A of tho times composed ot satire and harmless run easily accessible is our recent wartime humor it will be found gathered into various attractive volumes a largo part of their contents irbing satirical verse during this momentous eruptive period dr always good v as at his best dedicated to tho stay at homo rangers his sweet little man put tho loyal populace in a titter 1 acting upon petted society Adoni ses as tho coarser Mc Fingal had in colonial day now En glands tardy yeomen this melodious nettling javelin of wit drove many a perfumed curly locked tenderfoot into tho regulation uniform of volunteer regiments faced toward the potomac david ross locko petroleum vesuvius aasby and robert II 11 orpheus C karr acro newspaper exudations of esgo GL they soon had many loud published at toledo 0 lockos journal boro a title that was grimly suggestive of those keen edged ironical slashing utterances which gave tho X roads letters such wido circulation in bogl captain derby john phoenix died with laughters hushed sympathy paying its soulful tribute to a jokers exo dus already equipped joined his literary fortunes with those of tho mackerel Dri gado and diverted thousands of readers in and out of the grand army never tedious arccmus ward became tho nations accepted in tho spirit not tho letter of expression his quaintness was innocent and it yet remains unequaled somebody has commented on calm american irreverence if such bo the most noticeable characteristic of our jesters charles farrar crowno unconsciously v his cap and bells for nearly eight years he convulsed two continents his humor lost nono of its diamond glitter in a london fog it was a continual surprise a dazzling novelty when on tho ath of march 1867 tho curtain fell at southampton in england that sin cere brief epitaph pronounced by biam let on yorick was impressively tearfully ut tingly that tho nasby satires acro better in idea composition or effect or that they wore any farther known than the jack downing political letters of thirty years previous is questionable ant tho confusing division of authorship between seba smith of portland mo and charles augustus davis of new york city robbed the latter of a renown that might otherwise have brightened the cataloguer catalogues catal of our comic literature it has been said of and for sir davis that his jack downing is so much the stronger and goes so unerringly to the mark he intended to hit that ho can bo almost forgiven for tho way in which ho appears to have deliberately libera tely appropriated saba smiths creation and made it over for his own use henry clay lukens in harpers magazine |
