...Irving's book your coffin will fall to pieces." Walter Scott wrote to Irving's friend Henry Brevoort: "Looking at the simple and obvious meaning only, I...Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I have employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and two ladies who are our guests, and...

...the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that as a stranger to American...simple and obvious meaning only I have never read any thing so closely resembling the stile of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedriech Knickerbocker I...

...audacious but good-natured satire, and its flow of high spirits. " I have never," wrote Walter Scott, " read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean...Swift as the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. ... I think, too, there are passages which indicate that the author possesses power of a different kind,...

...the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that as a stranger to American...have never read anything so closely resembling the stile of Dean Swift as the annals of Dledrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings...

...the uncommon degi^ee of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently written history of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger to...politics, I must lose much of the concealed satire of the work ; but 1 must own that, looking at the simple aud obvious meaning only, I have never seen anything...

...History, which had reminded the early North American Review of Sterne, and Scott of Dean Swift: "I never read anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the annals of Diedrick Knickerbocker." On the other side lie The Sketch Book, Bracebridge Hall, and Tales of a Traveller,...

...the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history s drest After the Uiedrich Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings in reading them aloud to Mrs. S. and...

...the uncommon degree of entertainment which I have received from the most excellently jocose history of New York. I am sensible that, as a stranger to...simple and obvious meaning only, I have never read any thing so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift as the Annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker. I...

...court of Pennsylvania. Sir Walter Scott wrote to Mr. Henry Brevoort of New York, " I have never seen anything so closely resembling the style of Dean Swift...Knickerbocker. I have been employed these few evenings n. reading them aloud to Mrs. Scott and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides are sore with...

...manners of certain other people, not forgetting the . . . Americans." 2 Sir Walter Scott regretted that " as a stranger to American parties and politics,...must lose much of the concealed satire of the piece." s In 1825, the erratic American novelist and miscellaneous writer, John Neal, asserted that Irving...