Henry Duff Traill
Henry Duff Traill , was a British author and journalist.
Traills long connection with journalism must not obscure the fact that he was a man of letters rather than a journalist. He wrote best when he wrote with least sense of the burden of responsibility. His playful humour and his ready wit were only given full scope when he was writing to please himself. One of his most brilliant jeux desprit was a pamphlet which was published without his name soon after he had begun to write for the newspapers. It was called The Israelitish Question and the Comments of the Canaan Journals thereon . This told the story of the Exodus in articles which parodied very cleverly the style of all the leading journals of the day, and was at once recognized as the work of a born humorist. Traill sustained this reputation with The New Lucian, which appeared in 1884 but for the rest his labors were upon more serious lines. He directed the production of a vast work on Social England in 18931898 he wrote, for several series of biographies, studies of Coleridge , Stern
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