Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net _THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES._ 16mo. Per vol., 50 cents. * * * * * There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this, Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:-- CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS. LITERARY CURIOSITIES. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY, ETC. * * * * * "It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the manuscript for this series, and he can assure the lovers of the historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be committed to book form."--_Salem Gazette._ * * * * * _For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, upon receipt of price. Catalogues of our books mailed free._ TICKNOR & CO., BOSTON. THE OLDEN TIME SERIES * * * * * THE DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND _"To say that the past is of no importance, unworthy of a moment's regard, because it has gone by, and is no longer anything, is an argument that cannot be held to any purpose; for if the past has ceased to be, and is therefore to be accounted nothing in the scale of good or evil, the future is yet to come, and has never been anything."_--HAZLITT. * * * * * "_In my young days, when I was_ leetle, _The only steam came from the kettle._ .... "_The_ Gals _on good old Dobbins rid then, But folks don't do as they used to_ did _then._ .... _"Heigho! I grieve, I grieve For the good old days of Adam and Eve._" From HENRY J. FINN'S "Good Old Times," October, 1827. THE OLDEN TIME SERIES GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS BY HENRY M. BROOKS * * * * * The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England