However, as energetic as they are, there is still a tendency for them to be a bit hypersensitive, and a tad gossipy.
I try to cross the entire news spectrum with each news paper, choosing a few serious news stories, some gossipy stuff, some sports and some "news you can use."
Porter wrote a Life of Commodore David Porter (1875), gossipy Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), a none too accurate History of the Navy during the War of the Rebellion (1887), two novels, Allan Dare and Robert le Diable (1885; dramatized, 1887) and Harry Marline (1886), and a short "Romance of Gettysburg," published in The Criterion in 1903.