Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variationsin hyphenation have been standardised but all other spelling andpunctuation remains unchanged. In particular the spelling of proper namesviz. Catharine of Arragon remain.
In chapter XI, page 146:
“By the bye,” I put in, “it seems to me the
Morman has the biggest kick coming against
his wives’ mothers, yet I've never heard a word....
Morman is almost certainly Mormon or Mormon man.
THE ASBESTOS SOCIETYOF SINNERS
The Asbestos
Society
of Sinners
Detailing the Diversions of Dives and others on the Playground
of Pluto, with some broken threads of Drop-stitch
History, picked up by a Newspaper man
in Hades and woven into a Stygian Nights’
Entertainment.
BY
LAWRENCE DANIEL FOGG
MAYHEW PUBLISHING COMPANY
92-100 Ruggles Street
Boston, Mass.
Copyright, 1906
by
Lawrence Daniel Fogg
All Rights Reserved.
Dedicated to
JOHN KENDRICK BANGS
Who first made Hades a pleasant place of abode and aroused
in his reader a desire to go cruising on the Styx
CONTENTS:
| Chapter. | Page. | |
| I. | The Summons from Satan | 3 |
| II. | Shady Sinners of the Styx | 15 |
| III. | John Brown’s Body and the Bonesof John Paul Jones | 31 |
| IV. | Henry the Eighth and His Haremin Hades | 47 |
| V. | What Methuselah Thinks ofDr. Osler | 63 |
| VI. | The Virgin Throned in the West:A Tabloid Tangle of Love and History | 75 |
| VII. | “Boss” Tweed on Tainted Money,With Some Nonsense Definitions of Fads and Finance | 95 |
| VIII. | How the Creation Centered Abouta Petticoat: A Revised Version of Darwin’s “Ascent of Man” | 107 |
| IX. | When Adam Was a Boy: RandomRecollections of the Oldest Inhabitant | 119 |
| X. | Election Day Beyond The S ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |