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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

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Curiosities of the Old Lottery

"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 BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886 Copyright, 1886, By Ticknor and Company. All rights reserved. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge....

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INTRODUCTION.

While this work does not pretend to be a history, it will yet present many historical facts. Its object is to show from old newspapers, which are not accessible to all, such items and comments upon a variety of subjects as might be supposed to amuse or instruct both old and young. It is not the easy thing that many imagine to examine, read, and select from a vast number of newspapers such matter as is believed to be worth reproducing. Possibly to some it would seem to be a stupid and an unintere

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TICKNOR AND COMPANY

AMERICAN-ACTOR SERIES ( The ). Edited by Laurence Hutton . A series of 12mo. volumes by the best writers, embracing the lives of the most famous and popular American Actors. Illustrated. Six volumes in three. Sold only in sets. Per set, $5.00. Vol. I. Edwin Forrest. By Lawrence Barrett. The Jeffersons. By William Winter. Vol. II. The Elder and the Younger Booth. By Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke. Charlotte Cushman. By Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. III. Mrs. Duff. By Joseph N. Ireland. Fechter. By Kate Fie

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TICKNOR & COMPANY'S NEW BOOKS,

SPRING OF 1886. The prices named below are subject to revision on publication. THE STORY OF MARGARET KENT. By Henry Hayes . 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50. A new and thrilling novel of literary life in New York, written with masterly skill. One of the most exacting of reviewers says that it will "convince and touch thoughtful and sensitive readers"; and another, a well-known novelist and poet, says: "The plot and situations are original and natural. It is out of the common run, and sparkles with life—real l

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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

" Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. "— Longfellow. " What greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. "— Emerson. Hood. Herbert....

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New-England Sunday

"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 BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886 Copyright, 1886, By Ticknor and Company. All rights reserved. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Seeing in an old paper that General Washington was stopped by a "tythingman" in Connecticut in 1789 for the "crime" of riding on Sunday, we were naturally led to think about

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TICKNOR AND COMPANY

AMERICAN-ACTOR SERIES ( The ). Edited by Laurence Hutton . A series of 12mo volumes by the best writers, embracing the lives of the most famous and popular American Actors. Illustrated. Six volumes in three. Sold only in sets. Per set, $5.00. Vol. I. Edwin Forrest. By Lawrence Barrett. The Jeffersons. By William Winter. Vol. II. The Elder and the Younger Booth. By Mrs. Asia Booth Clarke. Charlotte Cushman. By Clara Erskine Clement. Vol. III. Mrs. Duff. By Joseph N. Ireland. Fechter. By Kate Fiel

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TICKNOR & COMPANY'S NEW BOOKS,

SPRING OF 1886. The prices named below are subject to revision on publication. ROMANCE AND REVERIE. By Edgar Fawcett . 1 vol. 12mo. Printed on fine hand-made paper, with gilt top. $2.00. A volume of poems, by the author of "Song and Story." "Mr. Fawcett was the man of whom Longfellow expected more than from any of the other young American authors, both as a poet and novelist."— American Queen. "The Revue des Deux Mondes gives high praise to Mr. Fawcett's poetry, and compares his briefer lyrics t

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JUST PUBLISHED.

THE STORY OF MARGARET KENT. By Henry Hayes . 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50. 6th thousand. A new and thrilling novel of literary life in New York, written with masterly skill. One of the most exacting of reviewers says that it will "convince and touch thoughtful and sensitive readers"; and another, a well-known novelist and poet, says: "The plot and situations are original and natural. It is out of the common run, and sparkles with life—real life—and deep feeling." AMERICAN WHIST. By G.W.P. 1 vol. 16mo. Six

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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

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ADVERTISEMENTS.

Advertisements are sometimes very amusing. They give insights into the manners of the times no less interesting than authentic. Suppose the ancients had possessed a press, and that a volume of a Roman Post or Chronicle had been dug up at Herculaneum, with what curiosity should we not contemplate the millinery of the Roman ladies, or, "Wanted, a Gladiator to fight the last new lion;" or, "Next Ides of November will be published the new poem of Quintus Horatius Flaccus"! — Leigh Hunt ....

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Quaint and Curious Advertiſements

"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 BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886 Copyright, 1886, By Ticknor and Company. All rights reserved. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge....

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CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.

Among the mass of advertisements that have appeared from time to time in newspapers are to be found some which are very quaint and curious. Such are not, in all cases, intended by the writers to be so; but they sound so, especially to those persons who have an ear for strange or humorous things. Sometimes, indeed, it is the intention of the writers to attract particular notice by the wording of the advertisement. Oftentimes the matter may have been dictated by illiterate persons. Frequently the

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HENRY M. BROOKS

"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 BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886 Copyright, 1886 , By Ticknor and Company. All rights reserved. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge. Gleanings chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts...

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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe. Pope : Odyssey . But hushed be every thought that springs From out the bitterness of things. Wordsworth....

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PUNISHMENTS MENTIONED.

Decoration...

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SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.

In the month of January, 1761, "Joseph Bennett, John Jenkins, Owen McCarty, and John Wright were publickly whipt at the Cart's Tail thro' the City of New York for petty Larceny,"—so the newspaper account states,—"pursuant to Sentence inflicted on them by the Court of Quarter Sessions held last Week for the Trial of Robbers," etc. In March the same year "One Andrew Cayto received 49 Stripes at the public Whipping Post" in Boston "for House-robbing; viz., 39 for robbing one House, and 10 for robbi

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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

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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....

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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 BOSTON TICKNOR AND COMPANY 1886 Copyright, 1886, By Ticknor and Company. All rights reserved. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge....

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LITERARY CURIOSITIES.

The following humorous lines well describe the difficulty that editors find in pleasing the public. They are expected to know everything, and to be able to satisfy all tastes and capacities. No imperfections can be excused in conductors of newspapers; they are not even allowed to be unfortunate. THE EDITOR. From a Salem paper of 1828; author not stated. Emerson. In "old times" almost all the young ladies upon their marriage were "amiable" and "agreeable"; at least they are so represented in most

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