Front matter
Reading edition
ARIEL BOOKLETS.
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A series of productions complete in small compass, which have been accepted as classics of their kind.
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For full list see end of this volume.
A Fable for Critics
by James Russell Lowell New York and London G. P. Putnam’s Sons The Knickerbocker Press Copyright, 1848 By GEORGE P. PUTNAM Copyright, 1890 By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.
Note.—This edition is printed under the authorization of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the publishers of the complete works of James Russell Lowell.
The Knickerbocker Press, New York Reader! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A FABLE FOR CRITICS; OR, BETTER, (I like, as a thing that the reader’s first fancy may strike, an old-fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volume’s contents) A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES (Mrs Malaprop’s word) FROM THE TUB OF DIOGENES: A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY THAT IS, A SERIES OF JOKES B y A W o n d e rf u l Q u i z, who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub. SET FORTH IN October, the 21st day, in the year ’48 G. P. PUTNAM, BROADWAY