BANGS BOOMS! The specimen of the species herein: Dumfries Corners. In this volume Bangs booms delightfully on suburbs (and the "urbs", of course) in such pieces as: "The Strange Misadventures of an Organ" in which a philosopher resident of Dumfries Corners must a make an odd decision about a church organ. "An Affinitive Romance" in which a man and a woman who are perfect for one another never meet -- and so, live happily ever after. And, of course, the title piece "The Booming of Acre Hill" in which we meet the Acre Hill Land Improvement Company and the ghastly spectacle of the Acre Hill Country Club. John Kendrick Bangs booms satirically indeed!

Author Biography

John Kendrick Bangs (1862 - 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist. He was born in Yonkers, New York. His father Francis Nehemiah Bangs was a lawyer in New York City, as was his brother, Francis S. Bangs. He went to Columbia College from 1880 to 1883 where he became editor of Columbia's literary magazine, Acta Columbia and contributed short anonymous pieces to humor magazines. After graduation in 1883 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Political Science, Bangs entered Columbia Law School but left in 1884 to become Associate Editor of Life under Edward S. Martin. Bangs contributed many articles and poems to the magazine between 1884 and 1888. During this period, Bangs published his first books.