The History and Records of the Elephant Club Part 25

"I have read the MS. of "The p.a.w.nbroker." Its princ.i.p.al scenes are laid in New York, s.h.i.+fting occasionally to New Orleans. It is written with great force, pathos, and ingenuity; and I have no hesitation in prophesying that it will be ranked with "The Lamplighter" and "The Wide, Wide World." Throughout the work a moral lesson is pointed; and although prolific in pictures of the most exciting nature, probability is never outraged by the introduction of mysterious impossibilities. It cannot fail of meeting with a large sale, and enviable popularity."

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JUST PUBLISHED.

PLU-RI-BUS-TAH:

A SONG THAT'S BY NO AUTHOR.

BY

Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.

[Ill.u.s.tration]

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EMBELLISHED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR ILl.u.s.tRATIONS, BY JOHN MCLENAN.

As a History of the Country, this book is invaluable, inasmuch as it 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, d.i.c.kens, Marryatt, or Bulwer. As a Mythological Work, it should be immediately secured, as it makes mention of a number of G.o.ds and deified worthies. .h.i.therto 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.

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PLU-RI-BUS-TAH.

A SONG THAT'S BY NO AUTHOR.

BY Q.K. PHILANDER DOESTICKS, P.B.

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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,

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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 Wors.h.i.+pped--Fight Number Three, with Variations--Matrimonial Endearments--Fight Number Four--A Compromise, and What Came of it--How a Woman got her s.p.u.n.k 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._

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"It is full of wit, sarcasm and fun. It is longer than Hiawatha, broader than Hudibras, and deeper than Punch."--_Philadelphia Sun._

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DOESTICKS.

[Ill.u.s.tration: DOESTICKS AND HIS FRIENDS.]

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