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  • I declare that I read from beginning to end, the other day, a work called "Salmagundi," and that I could not recognize in one single page anything to remind me of the New

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

  • Paulding the project of "Salmagundi," which presently enlivens and perplexes people with the vagaries of Launcelot Langstaff.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

  • Irving described this retreat in his "Salmagundi," and the characters there depicted which have been thought by many to be fanciful creations were in reality

    As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century Marian Gouverneur

  • All titles of articles appear in this index in capitals -- except "Salmagundi," "Editorial Etchings," "Political Pot-pourri," and a few other stock titles which were used in the ICONOCLAST as general headings for groups of untitled short articles.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • There is a mildly sophomoric flavor about the "Salmagundi" papers, as there is about Irving's letters of the same period.

    Washington Irving Henry Walcott Boynton 1908

  • Of this kind of life, "Salmagundi," the first number of which, appeared in January, 1807, was the legitimate outcome.

    Washington Irving Henry Walcott Boynton 1908

  • The youthful "Salmagundi" sketches, the broad satire of the Knickerbocker History were not much for a man of leisure to boast of at thirty-five.

    Washington Irving Henry Walcott Boynton 1908

  • He had won success enough through "Salmagundi" and

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • "Salmagundi" was the first step in the path of palpable imitation of Addison's "Spectator"; in "The Sketch-Book," though taking some charming departures, the writer made a more refined attempt to produce the same order of effects so perfectly attained by the suave Queen Anne master; and in "Bracebridge Hall" the recollection of the Sir Roger de Coverley papers becomes positively annoying.

    A Study of Hawthorne George Parsons Lathrop 1874

  • These social worthies had jolly suppers at the humble taverns of the city, and wilder revelries in an old country house on the Passaic, which is celebrated in the "Salmagundi" papers as Cockloft Hall.

    Washington Irving Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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