Among the many humorists of America, not one is better known, or more
readily accorded a high rank by the public, than Henry W. Shaw (Josh
Billings). No writer of the present age is so universally quoted from as
he. His name is familiar to every tongue, and scarcely a paper in the
country appears without more or less space devoted to the sayings of
"Josh Billings." His ready pen seems adapted to all subjects, and he is
equally at home, whether writing on the gravest or the most trivial
matters.