ASPENWOLD.
The claims of this work to a high place in the front rank of our
national literature will be admitted by every reader whose critical
abilities enable him to appreciate authorial excellence.
It is written in the form of an autobiography, like the works of
MARRYATT, and will favorably compare with the best of that popular
writer's productions.
It is free from the hackneyed incidents which comprise the principal
stock in trade of most of our modern novelists, and is emphatically
A FRESH BOOK
in the ripest sense of that much-abused term.
For its strength and naturalness of description, the reader will be
reminded of COOPER; in the flowing style of its narrative, of MARRYAT;
in the earnestness of its thought and diction, of CURRER BELL; and in
the completeness of its characters, of CHARLES DICKENS.
The power and originality of the work will ensure it a wide sale, and
secure a popularity for its author enjoyed by few.
Embellished with a beautiful Frontispiece.
408 Pages, 12mo, Cloth, Price $1 25.
LIVERMORE & RUDD, _Publishers_,
310 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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WILL BE PUBLISHED IN JUNE,
BY
Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.,
AND
Knight Russ Ockside, M.D.,
[Illustration: HISTORY AND RECORDS OF THE ELEPHANT CLUB.
With ILLUSTRATIONS By John McLenan
NEW YORK]
LIVERMORE & RUDD,
310 BROADWAY.
* * * * *
DOESTICKS' BOOKS.
12mo, Cloth, per Volume, $1 00.
Among the numerous testimonials from the press in all sections of the
country, we select the following, proving that the author's productions
will be sought for and read by thousands of admirers.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
"A humorist and a satirist of a very high order. His blows are aimed
with severe accuracy against a vast number of the follies, frailties,
and humbugs of the day."--_Baltimore American, Md._
"He shows up many of the modern popular humbugs in a very strong
light, and handles them most unmercifully."--_Dayton (Ohio) Daily
Empire._
"Doesticks is a wonder. The same happy spirit seems to pervade the
author and the artist--the illustrations of the latter are quite up
to anything Cruikshank ever achieved in the same line. If anybody
can look at these spiritings of the pencil without a loud laugh, he
is certainly out of our list of even grand fellows--but to enter
fully into the pleasing features of the work--to laugh over the
jokes, to enjoy the home-thrusts of wit and satire, our friends must
buy the book itself."--_Sunday Mercury, N. Y._
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