Gallegher, Van Bibber, and Other Stories
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Gallegher and Other Stories - The leading reporter (Richard Harding Davis) for the New York Sun in the 1890s published this collection of stories about an intrepid newspaper copyboy with a talent for crime detection, which helped make Davis one of the most popular authors in America during the decade. This book also introduces Courtlandt Van Bibber the wealthy man-about-town. * * * * Van Bibber and Others - This book collects stories concerning Daviss most popular creation, the wealthy man-about-town Courtlandt Van Bibber, who provides a lens on the often ridiculous antics of the rich and famous in Newport and along New Yorks Park Avenue at the turn of the 20th Century. * * * * What the critics said: As pictures of human life in a great city, these ... stories are simply unique. -Newark Advertiser. * * * * Mr. Davis is a writer of unquestioned genius. His sketches of city life in the poorer districts have a force which makes them exceptionally vivid and inspiring. -Albany Express. * * * * ... remarkable newspaper and magazine stories. They will make capital winter reading, and the book is one that will find a welcome everywhere. -N. Y. Journal of Commerce. * * * * The freshness, the strength, and the vivid picturesqueness of the stories are indisputable, and their originality and their marked distinction are no less decided. -Boston Saturday Gazette. * * * * His figures stand forth clear cut, and marvelously truthful and lifelike. Their wholesome tone is in grateful contrast to the false and exaggerated note so often struck by young authors. - Philadelphia Ledger. * * * * Gallegher And Other Stories has the stories: Gallegher: A Newspaper Story; A Walk Up the Avenue; My Disreputable Friend, Mr. Raegen; The Other Woman; The Trailer for Room No. 8; There Were Ninety and Nine; The Cynical Miss Catherwaight; Van Bibber and the Swan-Boats; Van Bibbers Burglar; and Van Bibber as Best Man. * * * * Van Bibber and Others has the stories: Her First Appearanc
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