American author, born in New York City on the 8th of February 1828; died on the 15th of May 1890. He was educated at the then famous Rand’s Academy, of his native city, and became a bookseller and publisher. He was on the editorial staff of Appleton’s Journal during its publication, and was a contributor to other periodicals. He is well known by his popular little book on manners, entitled Don’t. His other writings are A Bachelor’s Story; The Romance of the Revolution; Life Before Him; Bensley; Bachelor Bluff; My House an Ideal; Timias Terrystone; Marco Bozzaris; and Love in ’76.
