"Litterateur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... collected in New York, where the great publishing houses are located, and are a fine representative class of men and women, of whom I have met a number, such as Howells, the author and editor, and Mark Twain, the latter the most brilliant litterateur in the United States. This will be discovered when he dies and is safe beyond receiving all possible benefits from such recognition. Many men in America make reputations as humorists, and find it impossible to divest their ...
— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous |
