The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1855-08-02
DOcsticks!! New Book y!

DOesticks!! New Book ~!
THE GREAT AMERICAN WIT AND HUMoRIsr
Original, Pieces of Men and Things
Humorous .Aspects Of american Life.
BY Q. X. Philander Doesticks, z. B.
A n elegant l2mo., volume, fully illustrated,
II 81. For sale by all Booksellers. l2,773
Copies of this remarkable book were sold in
FIVE days following July Z, the day of Pubica-
ton; and orders amounting to over 200
copies each day, are now being received from
every part of the country.
This volume, abounding in mirth-provoking
sketches of persons and places, filed with hu-
NOR, 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, Doestick's 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 boat, is borne down a pleasant stream
of his own voliton. He must 20
on, and he is glad to go on, too"
CONTENTS:
How Doestcks came to think oft
Doesticks satisfies Philander.
Doesticks visits Niagara.
Doesticks on a Bender.
Seeking 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 Jealous Trio
Disappointed Love.
Modern Patent Piety.
Church Going in the City.
Benevolence Run Mad.
Charitable Cheating
Millerite Jubilee-IIow they didn't go
up.
The Great American Tragedian"
Side shows" Of the City.
New Years Day in New York.
Amusement for the Million.
A = 40 Sleigh Ride.
Cupid in Cold Weather.
Valentines Day.
The Kentucky Tavern.
The River Darkies.
The Thespian Wigwam.
Theatricals again.
A Night Mt the Bowery.
Mysterious Secrets Of the X. Ms.
A Midnight Initiation.
Philander Fooled.
A Diabolical Conspiracy.
A Shanghae Internal 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--Exit.
Keeping the Maine Law.
Theatricals once more.
Shakespeare Darkeyizod.
Macbeth in High Colors.
Young America in Long Dresses.
Great Excitement in Babylon.
The Home Journal (N p, Willis, Esq,
Editor) says" Things so copied, so talk
ed of, so pulled out Of every pocket to be
lent to you, so quoted and so relished and
laughed over rs Doestick's writings, never
were launched into print"
II is one ofthe most original produc-
tions that has yet emahated from the
American Press. Sunday atlas,
"There is no small share of fun, wit and
,1avarpass in this volume IA Y UnIU
Times
"No original comic writer has appeared
in this country before Mr.. Thompson alias
Doesticks; he will, we think, achieve a
position as n literary humorist, of which
he and his country will have occasion to
be proudly. Y. Critic.
We cordially recommend this volume,
not only as successful debut in new
field of literature, but rs q quaint teacher
Of morality, n promoter of good works and
an improver Of public taste. ."-.NeUdrh
(.N J) advertiser. .
"Those who have not read the book will
do we'll not to lose the present opportunity
to enjoy its wit and hhmor. Dos. ydtids
1.-THE reader is advised to see to his but
tons before procuring the volume. ."-Sa
lem Register.
EDWARD LIVERMORE, Publisher,
No. 20 Beekman ST., New York
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