The New International Encyclopædia/Bunce, Oliver Bell

BUNCE, Oliver Bell (1828–90). An American author. He was born in New York, where, for several years, he edited Appleton's Journal. He was the originator and editor of Picturesque America; wrote several novels; Bachelor Bluff (1882), a collection of social essays; and a small book on manners, entitled Don't (1884), which passed through many editions, and was translated into several foreign languages.