notices a great many events not mentioned by Bancroft, Hildreth, or
Prescott. As a Novel, it is unapproachable, for it contains several
characters unknown to Cooper, Dickens, Marryatt, or Bulwer. As a
Mythological Work, it should be immediately secured, as it makes mention
of a number of gods and deified worthies hitherto unknown to old Jupiter
himself. As a Poem, its claims to consideration can not be denied, as it
comprises a great many beauties not discoverable in "The Song of
Hiawatha," besides several Indian names which were therein omitted.
12mo, Muslin, Extra Gilt, price $1 00.
LIVERMORE & RUDD, _Publishers_,
310 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
Just Published.
DOESTICKS' NEW BOOK
PLU-RI-BUS-TAH.
A SONG THAT'S BY NO AUTHOR.
BY Q.K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P.B.
_An elegant 12mo. Price $1._
This volume is enjoying a greater popularity than the Author's first
book "DOESTICKS WHAT HE SAYS," which sold the first five days of
publication,
12,773 COPIES.
It contains an unlimited quantity of hits at every body, of which every
one must good-naturedly take his share, to pay for the privilege of
laughing at his neighbors, and _Embellished with one hundred and
fifty-four Humorous Illustrations_, designed by John McLenan, whose
reputation as an Artist is world-wide.
CONTENTS.
Explanation--The Author's Apology--Introduction--The Pipe, and Who
Smoked it--Who Came and Where He Came From--Fight Number One--Who
Whipped, Who Died, and How Many Run Away--Fight Number Two--How Many
Rounds, and Who Couldn't Come to Time--A Free-Love Marriage--The
Gathering of the Clans--What They Went to Work at, and How Much They
Got a Month--How the Hero Did a Great Many Things, and Who Helped
Him--A Single-Handed Game of Brag--What a Woman Did--What the Hero
Worshipped--Fight Number Three, with Variations--Matrimonial
Endearments--Fight Number Four--A Compromise, and What Came of
it--How a Woman got her Spunk Up, and Left the Country--The
Consequences--Mother and Child both Doing Well--He Continues His
Studies--His Progress--He still Continues His Studies--His Further
Progress--Who Died, and What They did with Him--Funereal and
Solemn--A Marriage, and What Came of it--Family Jars, and a
Departure--Spirit Rappings and Spirit Drinking Mixed--What He
Didn't--What His Mother Did, and Where She Went to--Cuffee
Triumphant--An Unexpected Smash--Demolition of The Hero.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS.
"We said of Doesticks' first work that it was a quaint teacher of
morality and a promoter of good works, we are ready to reiterate in
respect to this volume. There is not a vulgarity nor an indecency in
its pages, but clothed in unusual garb, the burden of its song is
morality, virtue, temperance, economy, patriotism. It rebukes
pretension, it scathes deception, it withers arrogance, it exposes
emptiness. Chapter IX.--What a Woman Did--is one of the best
arguments for national union to be found."--_Newark Daily
Advertiser._
"'Plu-ri-bus-tah' is a burlesque--broad almost beyond the scope of
the imagination."--_Charleston, S.C. Standard._
"Doesticks loves to indulge in a merry laugh at the expense of his
neighbors, as a good Christian is bound to do."--_New York Tribune._
"This is far the cleverest thing that Doesticks has done."--_N.Y.
Evening Post._
"It overflows with fun, and doctors should recommend it to all their
patients who may be troubled with the spleen. Every leaf contains a
sketch worthy of Punch."--_Boston Traveller._
"It is full of wit, sarcasm and fun. It is longer than Hiawatha,
broader than Hudibras, and deeper than Punch."--_Philadelphia Sun._
LIVERMORE & RUDD, PUBLISHERS,
310 BROADWAY, N.Y.
DOESTICKS.
[Illustration: DOESTICKS AND HIS FRIENDS.]
Fully Illustrated with fine tinted Engravings, by the most eminent
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LIVERMORE & RUDD, Publishers, 310 Broadway, N.Y.
A BOOK FROM "DOESTICKS."
THE GREAT AMERICAN WIT AND HUMORIST!
ORIGINAL VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS.
BY Q.K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P.B.
_Fully Illustrated by the most eminent Artists, 12mo., bound in muslin,
gilt extra_, $1.
12,773 copies of this remarkable book, were sold in five days following
the day of publication; and from every part of the country the demand
still continues.
DOESTICKS:
WHAT HE SAYS.
This volume, abounding in mirth-provoking sketches of persons and
places, filled with humor, wit, and satire, convulses the reader with
laughter from the title-page to the close. In the language of an eminent
journalist, who speaks of the book:
"From the first word in the introduction to the last of the narrative,
Doesticks' book is a running fire of comicality. In taking up the book,
the reader finds himself precisely in the same condition as the man who,
after getting into a boat, is borne down a pleasant stream independent
of his own volition. He must go on, and he is glad to go on, too."
CONTENTS.
How Doesticks came to think of it; Doesticks satisfies Philander;
Doesticks visits Niagara; Doesticks on a Bender; Seeking a Fortune;
Railroad Felicities; Sees the Lions; Barnum's Museum; Model Boarding
Houses; Potency of Croton Water--or an Aqueous quality hitherto unknown;
Modern Witchcraft; City Target Excursion; A New Patent Medicine
Operation; Doesticks Running with the "Masheen;" Street Preaching; A
Zealous Trio; Disappointed Love; Modern Patent Piety; Church Going in
the City; Benevolence run mad; Charitable Cheating; Millerite
Jubilee--How they didn't go up; The Great "American Tragedian;" "Side
Shows" of the City; New Year's Day in New York Amusement for the
Million; A 2:40 Sleigh Ride; Cupid in Cold Weather; Valentine's Day; The
Kentucky Tavern; The River Darkies; The Thespian Wigwam; Theatricals
again; A Night at the Bowery; Mysterious Secrets of the K.-N.'s; A
Midnight Initiation, Philander Fooled; A Diabolical Conspiracy; A
Shanghae Infernal Machine; An Evening with the Spiritualists; Rampant
Ghostology; Special Express from Dog Paradise; A Canine Ghost; 'Lection
Day; "Paddy" _versus_ "Sam;" Police Adventures; Mayor Wood Around;
Damphool Defunct; Place of his Exile; Description Thereof--and Exit;
Keeping the Maine Law; Theatricals once more; Shakespeare Darkeyized;
Macbeth in High Colors; Young America in Long Dresses; Great Excitement
is Babydom.
NOTICES OF THE PRESS
_The Home Journal_ (_N.P. Willis, Esq., Editor_), _says_:
"Things so copied, so talked of, so pulled out of every pocket to be
lent to you, so quoted and so relished and laughed over, as Doesticks'
writings never were launched into print."
"This book will 'take,' and is bound to sell."--_Boston Post._
"One can read the book again and again, and not tire."--_Detroit Daily
Advertiser._
"Any mirth-inclined reader will get the book's worth of fun out of four
chapters in the work. It is beautifully illustrated."--_N.Y. U.S.
Journal._
"We can promise our readers a hearty laugh over this book."--_New
Bedford Mercury._
"The reader is advised to see to his buttons before procuring the
volume."--_Salem Register._
"No _original_ comic writer has appeared in this country before Mr.
Thompson, alias Doesticks; he will, we think, achieve a position as a
literary humorist, of which he and his country will have occasion to be
proud."--_N.Y. Critic._
"We cordially recommend this volume, not only as a successful _debut_ in
a new field of literature, but as a quaint teacher of morality, a
promoter of good works, and an improver of public taste."--_Newark
(N.J.) Advertiser._
LIVERMORE & RUDD, Publishers, 310 Broadway, New York.
DOESTICKS' BOOKS.
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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._
"Doesticks is one of the few immortal names that were not born to die.
Doesticks will always be with us. We have only to step into our library,
and behold there is the ubiquitous Doesticks! We take him by the
hand--we listen to the thoughts that breathe--the quaint philosophy--the
piquant illustration! Doesticks all over--Doesticks in every page--in
every line! Do you wish to make the acquaintance of Doesticks? Every
body does."--_New York Railway Journal._
"The illustrations are in admirable keeping with the general tone of
these 'unprecedented extravagances,' and will help to introduce
Doesticks and his companions to a large circle of acquaintances."
--_McMakin's Philadelphia Saturday Courier._
"'Doesticks' is irresistibly funny."--_P.T. Barnum's Letter to the N.Y.
Tribune._
"Renown has made the euphonious name of 'Doesticks' familiar to the ear
of all the reading public throughout the length and breadth of the land.
Those who would eschew the blues, and drive dull care away, should read
Doesticks--what he says."--_Lansingburg Gazette, N.Y._
"The 'Doesticks' book is before us. Its inimitable fun sticks to us long
after we have shut the book--its rollicking humor comes back to us in
gusts."--_Boston Chronicle._
"Doesticks is an original genius. His book is just the thing to pick up
at odd moments, when time hangs heavy, and the mind seeks to be
amused."--_Gazette and Democrat, Reading, Pa._
"The essays of the rich, racy, humorous, and original Doesticks will be
read by thousands."--_New Orleans Bee._
"Doesticks' fun is not of the artificial, spasmodic order, it arises
from a keen perception of the humorous side of things."--_New York
Tribune._
"His blows at humbug are trenchant, and his sympathies are ever with
humanity."--_Boston Evening Gazette._
"Doesticks comes to us like a full and sparkling goblet, overflowing
with the rich and brilliant sayings of an original mind. If you would
drive away the 'Blue Devils,' purchase Doesticks, and every sketch you
read will be better than any pill for the indigestion."--_The Uncle
Samuel, Boston._
"What Cruikshanks, Leech, or Gavarni does with the pencil, he
accomplishes with the pen."--_The N.Y. Dutchman._
"The author is 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."--_American and Commercial
Advertiser, Baltimore, Md._
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