Newspaper clipping containing a biographical sketch of Charles F. Briggs. Transcription: ?The Cosmopolitan Art Journal has an elaborate biographical and critical notice of Charles F. Briggs, esq., of The New-York Times, in which justice is done to the accomplishments and abilities of that popular writer. As The Art Journal justly remarks, the public press of the country ?ǣis vastly changing for the better ?a change brought about by the introduction of such men as Mr. Briggs into the newspaper ?harness; ? and we see no reason why, under the guidance of such men, the American newspaper should
Newspaper clipping containing a biographical sketch of Charles F. Briggs. Transcription: ?The Cosmopolitan Art Journal has an elaborate biographical and critical notice of Charles F. Briggs, esq., of The New-York Times, in which justice is done to the accomplishments and abilities of that popular writer. As The Art Journal justly remarks, the public press of the country ?ǣis vastly changing for the better ?a change brought about by the introduction of such men as Mr. Briggs into the newspaper ?harness; ? and we see no reason why, under the guidance of such men, the American newspaper should not become the best in the world. ? The principle facts in the article may be condensed as follows: ?ǣSome twenty years ago, the ?Adventures of Harry Franco, a Tale of the Great Panic, ? was published in two volumes in New-York. Soon after the appearance of this work, there appeared in the Knickerbocker Magazine a series of articles by Harry Franco, some of them serious stories, but chiefly humorous sketches of city life and satires of contemporary events. A strict incognito cannot long be preserved by an author whose writings excite unusual attention, and challenge popular remark; and though Harry Franco appeared anxious to keep his personal identity a secret to all, yet it soon became known that his real name was Charles F. Briggs. ?ǣIn the year 1845, Mr. Briggs established a weekly newspaper called The Broadway Journal in conjunction with the late Edgar A. Poe. He wrote many articles for The Journal, viz: Criticisms, essays, poems; but, finding Poe an uncomfortable associate, he abandoned the work at the end of six months, and soon after became associate editor of The Evening Mirror, then in its fullest vigor. It was for this paper that he furnished a series of satirical letters under the signature of ?Ferdinand Mendez Pinto. ? ?ǣIt was in The Mirror that he published ?The Trippings of Tom Pepper, ? a romance similar in character to his first work. It was afterward r
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