ALBUM VERSES, ODD-FELLOWSHIP, &c.
~Dick's Original Album Verses and Acrostics.~ Containing a voluminous
and varied collection of Original Verses written expressly
_For Autograph Albums_;
_To Accompany Bouquets_;
_For Birthday Anniversaries_;
_For Wooden, Tin, Crystal, Silver and Golden Weddings_;
_For Album Dedications_;
_To Accompany Philopena Forfeits_;
_For Congratulation_;
_For Valentines in General and all Trades and Professions._
It contains also Two Hundred and Eighteen Original Acrostic Verses,
the initial letters of each verse forming a different Lady's Christian
name, the meaning and derivation of the name being appended to each.
The primary object of this book is to furnish entirely fresh and
unhackneyed matter for all who may be called upon to fill and adorn a
page in a Lady's Album; but it contains also new and appropriate
verses to suit Birthday, Wedding, and all other Anniversaries and
Occasions to which verses of Compliment or Congratulation are
applicable.
Paper covers ~50 cts.~
Bound in full cloth ~75 cts.~
~Sut Lovingood.~ Yarns spun by a "Nat'ral Born Durn'd Fool", Warped
and Wove for Public Wear, by George W. Harris. Illustrated with eight
fine full page engravings, from designs by Howard. It would be
difficult, we think, to cram a larger amount of pungent humor into 300
pages than will be found in this really funny book. The Preface and
Dedication are models of sly simplicity, and the 24 Sketches which
follow are among the best specimens of broad burlesque to which the
genius of the ludicrous, for which the Southwest is so distinguished,
has yet given birth.