# Mr. Leonard Gosling — The Humbugs of the World character guide

> Mr. Leonard Gosling in The Humbugs of the World by P. T. Barnum.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Mr. Gosling

**First appearance:** 0006-ii

## Who they are

A showman who exhibited a fake mermaid.

## In the story

### [Definition of Humbug](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_humbugs_of_the_world_se/chapters/ii)

Monsieur Gosling, the great French blacking-maker; his spectacular advertising campaign in New York in 1830 is described in detail.

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