The History and Records of the Elephant Club Part 26

ORIGINAL VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS.

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

_Fully Ill.u.s.trated 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 t.i.tle-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 Amus.e.m.e.nt 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 ill.u.s.trated."--_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 b.u.t.tons 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.

12mo, Cloth, per Volume, $1 00.

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 ill.u.s.trations 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 ill.u.s.tration! 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 ill.u.s.trations 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 Sat.u.r.day 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._

LIVERMORE & RUDD, _Publishers_, 310 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.