Bunner
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
HENRY CUYLER, an American poet and story writer, born in Oswego, N. Y., Aug. 3, 1855; became a journalist in 1873, and was editor of "Puck" from shortly after its start till his death. Author of "A Woman of Honor" (1883); "Airs from Arcady and Elsewhere" (1884); "The Midge" (1886); "The Story of a New York House" (1887); "Zadoc Pine and Other Stories" (1891); "Short Sixes" (1891); "The Runaway Browns" (1892); "Jersey Street and Jersey Lane" (1896); and "In Partnership," with Brander Matthews (1883). Also a play, "The Tower of Babel" (1883); and uncollected magazine articles. He died in Nutley, N. J., May 11, 1896. KARL CHRISTIAN BUNSEN, JOSIAS, BARON, a German diplomatist and scholar, born at Korbach, Waldeck, Aug. 25, 1791. In 1815 he made the acquaintance of Niebuhr, who shortly after procured for him the post of secretary to the Prussian Embassy at Rome. In 1824 he was appointed chargé d'affaires, and afterward Minister. After a stay of 12 years in Rome he was sent, as Prussian Minister, first to Switzerland, and then to England, where he remained till the breaking out of the Eastern difficulty in 1854. In his official capacity he won the esteem of all, and with Great Britain especially he was connected by many ties. His later years were spent at Heidelberg and at Bonn, exclusively in literary pursuits. Among his best known works are "The Constitution of the Church of the Future" (1845); "Egypt's Place in the World's History" (1845); "Hippolytus and His Time" (1851); and lastly, his greatest 16-Vol. II-Cyc work, "Bible Commentary for the Community," the publication publication of which was unfinished at his death, Nov. 28, 1860. His "Memoirs," by his widow, were published in 1868.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's compiled this in 1921 it could still describe Bunner simply as editor of "Puck" "till his death," without noting that the magazine itself had folded in 1918, two decades after he died at forty in Nutley, New Jersey. The steady stream of books the entry lists "Short Sixes," "The Midge," "The Story of a New York House" has largely dropped out of print and out of the American canon; Bunner survives now mainly through anthology pieces such as "The Love-Letters of Smith" and through free digital texts, and is remembered more as a shaper of the very short magazine story and of "Puck"'s comic voice than as a poet. The Bunsen notice tacked on below has aged differently: his "Egypt's Place in the World's History" was pioneering in 1845 but its chronology was superseded within a generation by later Egyptology.
Written for this edition, 2026.