The speech of presentation was made by our friend, "Colonel" James S. Norton, in what the rural paragrapher would have described as "the most felicitous effort of his life," and the wonderful collection was commended to Mr. Larned's grateful preservation by the judgment of Mr. Henry Field, whose own choice selection of paintings is the most valued possession of the Chicago Art Institute.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
But there was very much less of this sort of thing and of the daily badinage of the paragrapher than in the days of Field's primacy in that line.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The experience of Florindo and Lindora is easily parallelable in that of innumerable other married pairs of American race, who were the primitive joke of the paragrapher and the caricaturist when the day of farm-boarding began.
"Imaginary Interviews"
W. D. Howells