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Ye Olden Time Series.
During the Spring of 1886 Ticknor and Company began the publication of"Ye Olden Time Series, or Gleanings from the Old Newspapers, chiefly ofBoston and Salem," with brief Comments by Henry M. Brooks, of Salem,Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth.Price, 50 cents per vol.
Of this Series there are now ready:—
Vol. I. CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.
Vol. II. DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.
Vol. III. NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.
Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.
Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titlesof forthcoming volumes:—
"New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the Beginningof the 19th Century."
"Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."
"Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."
"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only asoffering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certainvalue to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness forthe general reader."—Boston Advertiser.
"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to behistory, they will contain much material for history."—LiteraryWorld.
Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, post-paid, on receipt of price by thePublishers,
TICKNOR AND COMPANY, Boston.
THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
LITERARY CURIOSITIES
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.—Lamartine.
The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a yearthan most scholars do in their great libraries.—F.B. Sanborn.
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face atfirst.—Carlyle.[Pg v]
THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON
AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
Literary Curioſities
"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is nothread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity,by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."—Emerson