be kept second--although a close second--to the short story standard.
sense, as are Cervantes, Rabelais, and Mark Twain.
small doses becomes nauseating when perused in large assignments.
"Petroleum V. Nasby" (David Ross Locke, 1833-1888), and "Artemus Ward"
to the close of the nineteenth century the work of such men as "Mr.
constituent of the author rather than of his material and product.
later writers who did attain these combined excellences.
work of Mary B. Haven is sufficiently suggested by her story, _Mrs.
a rule strike the keynote. These writers, except "the Widow Bedott,"
1844, _Columbian Magazine_), perhaps the best of his humorous stories.
however, which are at least excellent fooling; few more than that.
_combined_ with the piece of writing to form a well-balanced whole.