Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1869-05-15
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Il Is devoted 10 Literature, Science and
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The leading article this month, Is q review
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oey Burr. The other contents are aiirae.
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"THE SECRETS or THE GREAT CITY; A
work descriptive o! the Virtues and the
Vices, the Mysteries, Miscrics and Crimes
fNow York City" is the title Off hand
some volume, just issued by Jones Brothers
& Co., St. Louis, No., copy Of which is
now before us.
II tells how fortunes are made and lost
in dny-how shrewd men are ruined In
Wall strect-how counirymen are swindled
by sharpers-how ministers and merchants
nre black mailsd-how dance halls and
concert saloons are managed-how gam.
bling houses and lotteries are conduc ted
how stock and oil companies originate, and
how the bubbles burst-and treats of New
York, its people, its society, its rich, its
poor, their life, their habits, their haunts
and their peculiarities; Of churches,
palaces, novels, tenement houses
and public buildings; Of editors, judges,
lawyers, brokers, merchants, mechanics
md sewing girls; ofpolicemen, detectives,
sailors, fremen, news-boys, beggars, thieves,
lead beats, swindlers, gamblers and the
lemi-monde; Of hotels, boarding houses,
saloons, beer gardens, club and dance
houses; Of Fifth Avenue, Broadway, the
Bowery, Wall Street, the Five Points and
Central Park; of pawnbrokcrs, roughs,
'ortune tcilcrs, quacks, gift enterprises and
lumbugs.
All that is great, noble, generous, vicious,
mysterious, brilliant, startling, genteel or
habby, and Of all that is interesting and
worthy of record in the great city. |
As the Metropolitan centre Of the United
'lales, New York City reflects all the good
md evil of the land in their most intense
orms. There is no man, however often he
nay have visited New York, who cannot
earn, from this work, much regarding that
reat city, and its many and mighty in,
erests. ,.g t..r, t.,a s
This book will be found especially valua-
lie 10 those who expect to visit New York,
nd would shun its pitfalls, by studying it I
q their own homes, without cost or danger, {
nd yet learn ALL III i8q I'll iaglC
This very interesting work is sold only |
y subscription, and the publishers want
n agent in every county. Address as ]
bove, Jones Brothers 4 Co., 4l0 Market t
rect, st. Louis, Mo. ~, am c