THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES.
16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.
There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste forquaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this,Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. Thematerials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston andSalem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to behistory, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined andpresented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some ofthe volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:—
Curiosities of the Old Lottery.
Days of the Spinning-Wheel.
Some Strange and Curious Punishments.
Quaint and Curious Advertisements.
Literary Curiosities.
New-England Sunday, etc.
"It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at themanuscript for this series, and he can assure the lovers of thehistorical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable andpleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in thesebooks Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector andstudent, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to becommitted to book form."—Salem Gazette.
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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
THE DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND
"To say that the past is of no importance, unworthy of a moment'sregard, because it has gone by, and is no longer anything, is anargument that cannot be held to any purpose; for if the past has ceasedto be, and is therefore to be accounted nothing in the scale of good orevil, the future is yet to come, and has never beenanything."—Hazlitt.
The only steam came from the kettle.
But folks don't do as they used to did then.
For the good old days of Adam and Eve."
From Henry J. Finn's "Good Old Times,"
October, 1827.