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HENRY CUYLER BUNNER (1855-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY CUYLER See also:BUNNER (1855-1896)  , See also:American writer, was See also:born in See also:Oswego, New See also:York, on the 3rd of See also:August 1855• He was educated in New York See also:City . From being a clerk in an importing See also:house, he turned to journalism, and after some See also:work as a reporter, and on the See also:staff of the Arcadian (1873), he became in 1877 assistant editor of the comic weekly Puck . He soon assumed the editorship, which he held until his See also:death in Nutley, N.J., on the 11th of May 1896 . He See also:developed Puck from a new struggling periodical into a powerful social and See also:political See also:organ . In 186 he published a novel, The Midge, followed in 1887 by The See also:Story of a New York House . But his best efforts in fiction were his See also:short stories and sketches—Short Sixes (1891), More Short Sixes (1894), Made in See also:France (1893), Zadoc See also:Pine and Other Stories (1891), Love in Old Cloathes and Other Stories (1886), and See also:Jersey See also:Street and Jersey See also:Lane (1896) . His verses—Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere (1884), containing the well-known poem, The Way to Arcady; Rowen (1892); and Poems (1896), edited by his friend See also:Brander See also:Matthews—display a See also:light See also:play of imaging• tion and a delicate workmanship . He also wrote See also:clever vers de societe and parodies . Of his several plays (usually written in collaboration), the best was The See also:Tower of See also:Babel (1883) .

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