Episodes in Van Bibber's Life

Richard Harding Davis (1864–1916) was an influential American writer and journalist, regarded as the preeminent war correspondent of his time and a pioneer in the field of photojournalism. His early work, 'Episodes in Van Bibber's Life' (1892), is a collection of stories that follows the eponymous character, Van Bibber, a refined New Yorker, through a series of genteel adventures and high society ...