The New International Encyclopædia/Bunce, Oliver Bell

BUNCE, (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.