BUN'NER, HENRY CUTLER (1855-96). An American novelist and humorist; editor of Puck from almost its beginning till his death. lie was born in Oswego and educated in New York, whither lie came as a youth. After a brief ex perience of business life he essayed journalism on the staff of the short-lived Arroolian, and passed thence in 1877 to the editorial office of pack, a journal to which he gave a certain dignity and authority in political 'Dialers. foreign to the usual standard of the comic press. His editorials were honest. independent. never ran corous, never cynical. never time•serving. His satire scented to spring from knowledge. Those who winced felt that the writer was one of themselves. lie could be counted on as a force for political honesty and social sanity, an enemy of all visionary schemes of 'Utopian agitators and socialistic extremists. But besides this edi torial work, the memory of whose worth and power is slowly fading away, Blamer distin guished himself as a novelist, a story-writer, and a poet. Both The Midge (ISS6) and The Story
of a New York House (1887) showed a sym pathetic feeling for the artistic elements in New York life. but his genius was even more marked in short stories, admirable in their restrained pathos, unobtrusive humor, mid simplicity of structure, barbed often with a political or social moral, and touched sometimes with an idyllic charm. Of several volumes of these stories, the lutist popular are Zadok Pine (1891) : . hort Nixes 11891) ; More Nhorn Nixes (1894) ; Lore in Old (loathes (1896) : and 'Jersey Ntroet find serf Lane (1890). of unique interest is Made in France (1893). stories adapted from 31au passant (q.v.), with a remarkable skill, that oceasionally betters the French originals. Bun 11Pr'S verses, which are marked by grace and charm, are collected in .1 irs from Arcady (1884) and Rowen. He wrote also a play. The Tower of Babel (18S3). He died in Nutley, N. J., May 11, 1896.