Small, Maynard & Company, Boston
Reading edition
By FINLAY PETER DUNNE (“Mr. Dooley”)
“Mr. Dooley must be added to the acquaintance of all who esteem good sense and good humor. He is worthy to take his place as a national satirist beside Hosea Biglow.”—The Academy, London.
MR. DOOLEY: IN PEACE AND IN WAR (70th thousand)
“We awoke in the morning to kneel at the shrine of Dooley, and to confess that here was the man, here the very fellow, we had long been waiting for,—here at last America’s new humorist.”—Max Pemberton, in The London Daily Mail.
“Full of wit and humor and real philosophy which rank their possessor among those humorists who have really made a genuine contribution to permanent literature.”—Harry Thurston Peck, in The Bookman.
“His eloquence is a torrent, and his satire as strong and stinging as a slave-driver’s whip.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
Green cloth, decorative, 7 x 41⁄2 in. $1.25
MR. DOOLEY: IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN (35th thousand)
“The depression that could prevail against the influence of ‘Mr. Dooley’s’ ebullient drollery, gay wisdom, and rich brogue would be profound indeed, and its victim would be an altogether hopeless case.”—The London World.
“His new book shows no falling off: his wit is as nimble as ever, his eye as quick to note incongruities, his satire as well directed and as brilliant.”—The Academy, London.
“‘Mr. Dooley’ improves on acquaintance. His creator is a real and rare humorist.”—The Bookman.
Blue cloth, decorative, 7 x 41⁄2 in. $1.25
By GELETT BURGESS.
VIVETTE. Or, the Memoirs of the Romance Association.
Setting forth the diverting Adventures of one Richard Redforth in the very pleasant City of Millamours; how he took Service in the Association; how he met and wooed the gay Vivette; how they sped their Honeymoon and played the Town; how they spread a mad Banquet; of them that came thereto, and the Tales they told; of the Exploits of the principal Characters, and especially of the Disappearance of Vivette.
“Mr. Burgess displays infinite zest and exhaustless resources of invention, and hurries his readers breathlessly along, from one astonishing and audacious situation to another, till the book is flung down at finis with a chuckle of appreciative laughter.”—The Literary News.
Cloth, 63⁄4 x 41⁄8 in. $1.25
By S. E. KISER.
GEORGIE.
The Sayings and Doings of his Paw, his Maw, Little Albert, and the Bull Pup.
“The charm of the book is the permanent charm of all literature, according to Matthew Arnold’s admirable definition. Georgie is a singularly acute and humorous interpretation of the home life led by the American who is neither too rich to be aping the English nor too poor to avoid the other extreme of Europeanism in slum or hovel. The book is worth reading as holding ‘a mirror up to nature,’ and it is also worth praising because it discloses between its lines a kindly and unspoiled nature on the part of the author.”—Chicago Tribune.
Cloth, decorative, 63⁄8 x 57⁄8 in. With ten illustrations by Ralph Bergengren. $1.00
By HOLMAN F. DAY
UP IN MAINE. Stories of Yankee Life told in Verse.
Few books of verse have won popular favor so quickly as this volume, which is now in its ninth edition and selling as steadily as when first published. It is a rare combination of wit, humor, sense, and homely pathos.
“Reading the book, one feels as though he had Maine in the phonograph.”—The New York Sun.
“James Russell Lowell would have welcomed this delicious adjunct to The Biglow Papers.”—The Outlook.
“So fresh, so vigorous, and so full of manly feeling that they sweep away all criticism.”—The Nation.
“His subjects are rough diamonds. They have the inherent qualities from which great characters are developed, and out of which heroes are made.”—Buffalo Commercial.
Cloth, decorative, six illustrations, 71⁄2 x 47⁄8 in. $1.00
PINE TREE BALLADS. Rhymed Stories of Unplaned Human Natur’ up in Maine.
Mr. Day’s second book bids fair to outdo in popularity his earlier volume.
The section titles, “Our Home Folks,” “Songs of the Sea and Shore,” “Ballads of Drive and Camp,” “Just Human Nature,” “Next to the Heart,” “Our Good Prevaricators,” and “Ballads of Capers and Actions,” give an idea of the nature of the contents, which are fully equal in freshness, vigour, and manly feeling to the poems by which Mr. Day has already won an established reputation.
“It is impossible to think of any person or class of people in America that these epical lyrics, these laughter-fetching, tear-provoking ballads will fail to please.”—The Chicago Record-Herald.
Cloth, decorative, gilt top, illustrated, 71⁄2 x 4 in. Net, $1.00
By OLIVER HERFORD
ALPHABET OF CELEBRITIES, AN
“Mr. Herford, less considerate than Dr. Holmes, always dares to be as funny as he can, and the wicked glee with which he groups persons incongruous and antipathetic and shows them doing things impossible to them, and makes pictures of them, is a thing to shock the Gradgrinds and dismay the Chadbands. The book is printed in two colors to divert the reader’s mind from the jokes, lest laughter be fatal to him.”—New York Times.
Paper boards, 93⁄8 x 71⁄8 in.
With 26 illustrations by the Author. $1.50
By JOHN B. TABB
CHILD VERSE. Poems Grave and Gay
Little poems, full of fancy and sweetness, for grown people as well as for children.
“It is pleasant to observe that Father Tabb is not afraid of the pun. He uses it very felicitously in a number of his verses. It is good to see the rehabilitation of an ancient and unfortunate friend.”—Harper’s Weekly.
Cloth, decorative, 77⁄8 x 63⁄8 in. $1.00
By AGNES LEE
ROUND RABBIT, THE. And Other Child Verse
A new holiday edition of Mrs. Lee’s delightful verse, which includes a number of new poems. With illustrations by O’Neill Latham.
“The mother who [can read] to her young ones these cheerful, sweet, and fascinating jingles, with the pretty quaint conceits and ingenious rimes, without chuckling and forgetting her woes, will be indeed deeply dyed in cerulean.”—The Bookseller, Newsdealer, and Stationer.
Cloth, decorative, 77⁄8 x 61⁄4 in. Net, $1.00
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