Chapter VIII: Part 8

The Publishers believe that "The Pawnbroker" is not inferior, either in power or interest, to any other work of Fiction that has been yet issued from the American Press; while the local interest it possesses, in consequence of its truthful delineation of New York life, forms one of its many attractive features. It is the production of an American lady, who is endowed with a fine culture, a refined and polished idea of the requirements of Virtue and Civilized Life; together with a clear insight of the human heart, whether bowed down by its own dark depravity, or consoled and elevated by the noble instincts of honor and truthfulness. But this is not all; our authoress is an Artist, and her book will do credit to Modern American Literature.

Her Hero and Heroine are taken from the humblest walks of life; but our interest becomes almost at once, unconsciously enlisted in their welfare, and with intense excitement, pain, and hope, the thread of the narrative which depicts their chequered, trying and varied career, is perused. This effect is produced, without bombast or enervating sentimentality; simply because a story founded upon fact is narrated with becoming dignity, modesty and consummate Literary Art. The characters introduced throughout the work are numerous; but each possesses a peculiar, marked, and distinct individuality.

A writer in the _Boston Literary Bulletin_ says of it:

"I have read the MS. of "The Pawnbroker." Its principal scenes are
laid in New York, shifting 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."

LIVERMORE & RUDD, PUBLISHERS,

310 BROADWAY, N.Y.

W.H. Tinson, Stereotyper, 24 Bookman Street.

JUST PUBLISHED.

PLU-RI-BUS-TAH:

A SONG THAT'S BY NO AUTHOR.

BY

Q.K. Philander Doesticks, P.B.

This Book contains an unlimited quantity of hits at every body, of which every one must good naturedly take his share, to pay for the privilege of laughing at his neighbors.

EMBELLISHED WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, 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, Dickens, Marryatt, or Bulwer. As a Mythological Work, it should be immediately secured, as it makes mention of a number of gods and deified worthies hitherto 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.

12mo, Muslin, Extra Gilt, price $1 00.

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

Just Published.

DOESTICKS' NEW BOOK

PLU-RI-BUS-TAH.

A SONG THAT'S BY NO AUTHOR.

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

_An elegant 12mo. Price $1._

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,

12,773 COPIES.

It contains an unlimited quantity of hits at every body, of which every one must good-naturedly take his share, to pay for the privilege of laughing at his neighbors, and _Embellished with one hundred and fifty-four Humorous Illustrations_, designed by John McLenan, whose reputation as an Artist is world-wide.

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
Worshipped--Fight Number Three, with Variations--Matrimonial
Endearments--Fight Number Four--A Compromise, and What Came of
it--How a Woman got her Spunk 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._

"It overflows with fun, and doctors should recommend it to all their
patients who may be troubled with the spleen. Every leaf contains a
sketch worthy of Punch."--_Boston Traveller._

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

LIVERMORE & RUDD, PUBLISHERS,

310 BROADWAY, N.Y.

DOESTICKS.

Fully Illustrated with fine tinted Engravings, by the most eminent artists.

An elegant 12mo. vol. bound in Muslin, gilt extra. $1.

LIVERMORE & RUDD, Publishers, 310 Broadway, N.Y.

A BOOK FROM "DOESTICKS."

THE GREAT AMERICAN WIT AND HUMORIST!

ORIGINAL VIEWS OF MEN AND THINGS.

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

_Fully Illustrated 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 title-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 Amusement 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 illustrated."--_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 buttons 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.

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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 illustrations 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 illustration! 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 illustrations 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 Saturday 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._

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