Identifier: glimpsesofgotham00mack_0 (find matches)
Title: Glimpses of Gotham and city characters.
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Mackeever, Samuel Anderson, b. 1848 Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC
Subjects: Manners and customs
Publisher: (New York) : Published at the National Police Gazette Office, New York.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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BY SAMUEL A. MacKEEVER, THE AMERICAN CHARLES DICKENS- / * PUBLISHED AT THE NATIONAL POLICE GAZETTE OFFICE, NEW YORK. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by RICHARD K. FOX, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Samuel Anderson MacKeever. HIS LIFE AMD WHAT HE DID IN IT. In presenting to the public this series of sketches, whose appearance originally in the National Police Gazette achieved immediate and pronounced success, the publisher is actuated by a desire to rescue from the oblivion into which similar fugitive works inevitably fall, some of the best productions of a pen so full of present performance and of future promise, that its loss leaves a vast gap in local literature. Samuel Anderson Mackeever was a historic figure in American journalism. He was a journalist only in the sense that his labors were in the busy field of newspaperdom, instead of in that superior walk of literature in which far interior men win more extended fame, and to high

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