Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Christine D. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net =Ye Olden Time Series.= During the Spring of 1886 TICKNOR AND COMPANY began the publication of "YE OLDEN TIME SERIES, OR GLEANINGS FROM THE OLD NEWSPAPERS, CHIEFLY OF BOSTON AND SALEM," with brief Comments by HENRY M. BROOKS, of Salem, Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth. Price, 50 cents per vol. Of this Series there are now ready:-- =Vol. I. CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.= =Vol. II. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.= =Vol. III. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.= =Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.= =Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.= =Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.= The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles of forthcoming volumes:-- ="New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the Beginning of the 19th Century."= ="Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."= ="Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."= * * * * * "What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only as offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certain value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for the general reader."--_Boston Advertiser._ "A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be history, they will contain much material for history."--_Literary World._ * * * * * _Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by the Publishers,_ TICKNOR AND COMPANY, BOSTON. THE OLDEN TIME SERIES * * * * * LITERARY CURIOSITIES _Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE. _The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year than most scholars do in their great libraries._--F.B. SANBORN. _No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first._--CARLYLE. THE OLDEN TIME SERIES. GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS BY HENRY M. BROOKS * * * * * Literary Curiosities "Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON [Illustration: T AND CO] BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886 _Copyright, 1886,_ BY TICKNOR AND COMPANY. * * * * * _All rights reserved._ =University Press:= JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE. INDEX OF NAMES.