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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 51, 23 November 1907, Page 13

In discussing the question what humorous writers in Amorica givo any promise of being able to supply the place of Mark Twain, who is now past 70, "The' Times" contributor is not optimistic. "Mr. Dooley," as Finloy Peter Dunne is always called, has (ho says) tho greatest vogue, though it is questionable if his is the greatest talent. Like- Mark Twain's, his humour rests on a basis of solid wisdom; hut thus far ho has limited himself to a narrow rango of performance, and there are times when ho falls into dulncss and commonplace Several years ago ho began a novel in ono of tho monthly magazines, but after a few chapters appeared he abandoned it. His qualities would seem to fit him to writp tho novel of Irish-American life, which fairly clamours to roproduco' curious conditions now rapidly passing. Tho most recent, and ono of tho most successful, of American humorists is tho writer who calls himself "0. Henry," niitl whoso real name is Sidnoy Porter. "0. Henry," now in the early forties, has had a wide experience in tho more elemental phases of American life in tho South and West, and during his few years of residence in New York he has studied tho varied lifo of the city. Not only does ho posses a quaint humour, but ho has also the storytelling faculty,