New-York tribune., 1885-02-07
Nerp DublifGtiotlG.
THE BUNTLING BALL.
WHO WROTE TT
ROBERT GRANT coNYEssEs

SHAVE reaa Tho Bunting BAH with great pleasure and
interest think remarkably we DONE but medesty io
me to say that tina method OF con-
sructon system Of choruses familiar TO mo
that though really could have sworn before reading IL as
write IT. ready TO guess that am the
author hereby authorize the publishers divide my share
Of the dollars the ninety and nine persons to
whom:th poem has been attributed"
Boston, Feb. 8. 'eo. ROBERT GRANT
W. A. CRoFFUT ALSO CoNrEssEs
"I have read The Buntlins with keen pleasure
But objection to saying that AIN siad wrote
a. and would do again circumstances But
wouth like to know how the people found It out have
never told soul made gesture that could disclose the
valuable careful have been about this that
called the publishers until yesterday since leaving
the manuscript well that the people
should yet for who did write I'll So in order to
bewilder and venture guess that the
authorship lies between Bunner and me-"
Nsw.York, Jan 81, 's5. wa CRoFFUT.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
FIRST oUEsT:oN You promised % give 81 600 for cor
pecs pfo6sbe hst that the saes viii reach
ANSWER We have already In press the eighth thousand
book has scarcely begun to BOOM Would It not DO
the sales of book Of such exceptional merit
does lot up into the hundreds OF thousandst
SECOND QUESTION, "Are regard the parody in
Puoks Annual by Robert Grsnt and the one IN NE, mo
authors they intended to further confuse the pub
ANsWER We must beg to refer this question to those
ceent journals a direct question is put to them they
will no doubt truly their seriousness Is known ana
read OF all men.
THIRD QUESTION: "w. A. Cronut says in The World
%ua 81 asf 1SnGaR AL Ts now not guess
that he is the anthor Will not have rSht 10 oso
Croiut for misleading me ~
ANSWER: MOI for Crofutis poet and what would
OF poetry poets not to be allowed more tn inc
usual share Of licen3ei"
FOURTH QUESTION: us It true that THE tn e., BUNT ,N1
LING BALL lis hit at certain famous bal that TOOK
place in Fifh time ago and which created 80
taki There something remarkably susseSu'e III 'nA'
lamp.post picture. is my surmise Tighti"
ANSWER: We asked the author.
WHAT II. H. BOYESEN THINKS;
shave read THE BUNTLING BALL with much pleas
ure O delightful satire In my opinion II can only
have by classical scholar who IL wei Nersed
both IN modern lore. There Is an fresst4Dle
dro!ery in tho combination stately classical metres and the
lae,r slang As Robert Grant is only American
who has done this before confidently conclude
that he Ia tho author"
UJALMAR II. BOYEsEN.
Columbia College Jan. 81. 's5.
WHAT OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THINKS:
81 began reading THE BUNrLINU BALE.' meaning
TO take but OF e. anlneyor stopped until had Finished
IT, II IA ingcnioug witty fuelt aud wholesome should like
| to know who the author Ia
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
Boston. Dec. II. 50.
JULIAN HAWTHORNE
gue..es Jarnes Russell Lowell as the author.
PRICES. CLOTH. - 59i GILT EDO :. 81 90.
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