...skilful piece of advertising. Notices appeared in the newspapers of the disappearance from Ms lodging of ' a small, elderly gentleman, dressed in an old...coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker.' Paragraphs from week to week, purporting to be the result of inquiry, elicited the facts that such...

...skillful piece of advertising. Notices appeared in the newspapers of the disappearance from his lodging of " a small, elderly gentleman, dressed in an old...coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker." Paragraphs from week to week, purporting to be the result of inquiry, elicited the facts that such...

...advertising. Notices appeared in the newspapers of the disappearance from bin lodging of ' a email, elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker.' Paragraphs from week to week, purporting to be the result of inquiry, elicited the facts that such...

...publication, History of New York. Late in October, 1809, appeared in the ning Post this paragraph : "DISTRESSING." " Left his lodgings some time since,...KNICKERBOCKER As there are some reasons for believing that he is not entirely in his right mind, and as great anxiety is entertained about him, any informa-...

...recurred to a device which he had already employed with success. Fray Antonio is no less mythical than the "small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black...coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker," who was supposed to have left behind him, in his rooms at the Independent Columbian Hotel, that "very...

...York. The book was supposed to be written by Diedrich Knickerbocker, who, according to Irving, was " a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat," who had mysteriously disappeared from his lodgings in Mulberry Street and left the manuscript of the...

...advertiser. About six weeks before the book was published, appeared this notice in the Evening Post: "Distressing. "Left his lodgings some time since, and has not since been heard cf, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black ccat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker....

...This was partly due, no doubt, to the skilful advertisements, which announced in the newspapers that "a small, elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black...coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker," had disappeared from his lodgings without paying his bill, but had left behind him a curious manuscript-book...

...wizard region of Sleepy Hollow." InL. and L., i, 170, will be found the account of the advertisement for "a small, elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black...coat and cocked hat, by the name of Knickerbocker," which preceded the publication of the History of New York. The advertisement, of course, was a hoax,...

...campaigns on record. Notices were sent to the newspapers of the disappearance of Diedrich Knickerbocker, a small elderly gentleman, dressed in an old black coat and cocked hat, who had left the Independent Columbian Hotel without paying his bill. City officials were said to be...