=CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS OF BYGONE DAYS=; by the author of “Sabbath
in Puritan New England,” etc., with many quaint pictures by Frank
Hazenplug. 12mo. $1.50.
Mrs. Earle dedicates her book, in the language of an old-time
writer, to “All curious and ingenious gentlemen and gentlewomen who
can gain from acts of the past a delight in the present days of
virtue, wisdom and the humanities.”