[Footnote 11: A prominent American littérateur of the period. The
titles of many of his books have been preserved, such as _His
Father's Son_, _The Last Meeting_, _A Secret of the Sea_,
&c.]
[Footnote 12: A newspaper writer of the day. He specialized in very
short editorials, so notably preëminent, even in American journalism,
for feeble-mindedness that these were published, simultaneously, by
some fifty of the leading papers of the United States, and were read
everywhere with edification.]
[Footnote 13: Novelists of the day; authors of _Charles Rex_,
_Janet March_, _Greatheart_, &c.]