Off-hand Takings; or, Crayon Sketches of the Noticeable Men of Our Age

408 pp. Illustrated with twenty portraits on steel. Essays on various notable literary figures including, Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, William H. Seward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Washing Irving, P. T. Barnum, Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. Thackeray, and others.