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Alcott, Louisa: "Transcendental Wild Oats" IV. 68

American Early Writers: Some of them who were thought
Witty--Anne Bradstreet; Mercy Warren; Tabitha Tenney III. 47
Satirical Poem, by Mercy Warren III. 47
Mrs. Sigourney's Johnsonese Humor; Extracts from her
Note-Book III. 48
Miss Sedgwick's Witty Imagination, III. 49
Mrs. Caroline Gilman's humorous Poem, "Joshua's
Courtship" III. 49

Andersen, Hans, Reference to Woman Dramatist in his
Autobiography X. 196

Aphorisms by the Queen of Roumania (Carmen Sylva) I. 24

"Auction Extraordinary" VIII. 176

"Aunty Doleful's Visit," by M.K.D.--"If I can't do
anything else, I can cheer you up a little" VI. 118

Barnum and Phoebe Cary V. 102

Bates, Charlotte Fiske: "Hat, Ulster and All," Satirical
Poem, Quatrain and Epigram VIII. 175

"Beechers," Old Family Epigram applied to the I. 22

Behn, Aphra: Wrote Comedies; her unsavory Wit X. 195

Bellows, Isabel Frances: "A Fatal Reputation" (for
wit)--"A picnic, that most ghastly device of the human
mind" VII. 129

Bremer, Frederika, her genuine Humor; First Quarrel with
her "Bear" II. 41

Brine, Mary D.: Poems, "Kiss Pretty Poll" VIII. 158

" " "Thanksgiving Day--Then and Now" VIII. 159

Burleigh, Pun on, by Queen Elizabeth I. 16

Butter, Punning Poem on, by Caroline B. Le Row I. 18

Cary, Phoebe, "The wittiest woman in America": Her
quick retorts and merry repartees; her parodies and
humorous poems V. 101

Champney, Lizzie W.: "An Unruffled Bosom"--a Tragical
Tale of a Negress who "knew Washington" VIII. 171

Clarke, Lady, and her Irish Songs II. 44