The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities

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Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities Gleanings
Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts
Author: Henry M. Brooks
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=Ye Olden Time Series.=
During the Spring of 1886 TICKNOR AND COMPANY began the
publication of "YE OLDEN TIME SERIES, OR GLEANINGS FROM
THE OLD NEWSPAPERS, CHIEFLY OF BOSTON AND SALEM,"
with brief Comments by HENRY M. BROOKS, of Salem,
Massachusetts. Six volumes are now ready: each in 1 vol. 16mo. Cloth.
Price, 50 cents per vol.
Of this Series there are now ready:--
=Vol. I. CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.= =Vol. II. DAYS
OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL IN NEW ENGLAND.= =Vol. III.
NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY.= =Vol. IV. QUAINT AND CURIOUS
ADVERTISEMENTS.= =Vol. V. SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS
PUNISHMENTS.= =Vol. VI. LITERARY CURIOSITIES.=
The Series will be continued, and the following are some of the titles of
forthcoming volumes:--
="New-England Music in the Latter Part of the 18th and in the
Beginning of the 19th Century."=
="Travel in Old Times, with Some Account of Stages, Taverns, etc."=
="Curiosities of Politics, among the Old Federalists and Republicans."=
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"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only
as offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a
certain value to the student of New-England history, and an
instructiveness for the general reader."--Boston Advertiser.
"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be
history, they will contain much material for history."--Literary World.
* * * * *

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TICKNOR AND COMPANY, BOSTON.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES
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LITERARY CURIOSITIES
Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature.--LAMARTINE.
The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year
than most scholars do in their great libraries.--F.B. SANBORN.
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at
first.--CARLYLE.

THE OLDEN TIME SERIES.
GLEANINGS CHIEFLY FROM OLD NEWSPAPERS OF BOSTON
AND SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS
SELECTED AND ARRANGED, WITH BRIEF COMMENTS
BY
HENRY M. BROOKS
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Literary Curiosities
"Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no
thread that is not a twist of these two strands. By necessity, by

proclivity, and by delight, we all quote."--EMERSON
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INDEX OF NAMES.
PAGE ADAMS, JOHN 82, 107 Adams, Rev. Mr. 8 Adams, Sally 8
Aiken, Rev. Mr. 125 Aldrich, Mrs. 105 André, Major 111 Arnold,
Benedict 32, 33 Averell, Joseph 7
BARNARD, EDWARD 19 Barnard, Rev. Thomas 19 Barnard, Thomas,
D.D. 19 Bayley, Matthew 105 Belcher, Governor 6 Belcher, Miss 5
Binney, Spencer 8 Birbeck, Morris 42 Blunt, John 39 Blunt, Mary Ann
39 Bons, Francis 103 Bowen, Henry 9 Bowes, John 102 Bradstreet,
Anne 69 Breed, James 7 Brent, Eleanor 65 Brent, Robt. 65 Briggs,
Enos 118 Brodie, Charlotte B. 9 Brookley, John 103 Bulkeley, Peter 68
Bullard, Polly 7 Bulow 111 Burt, Emily 8 Burton, Francis 12 Button,
John 104

CABOT, J. 30 Cameron, Mary 104 Cass, Lewis 46 Cass, Miss 47
Casteguedo, F.L. 102 Checkley, Samuel 6 Checkley, William 6
Cheever, Master 125 Clough, Sally 11 Clough, Samuel 17 Cobbett,
William 123 Columbus, Christopher 16 Consist, Francis 103 Cook,
Nancy 12 Cotton, Charles 82 Cranston, Polly 6 Cromwell, Oliver 70
Currier, Samuel 11 Cushing, T.C. 62
DALAND, JACK 13 Davis, Benjamin 4 De Cugna, Numas 101 De la
Roche Sur Yon 115 De Lametter, Christina 105 Derby, E.H. 117, 118
Desmond, Countess 102 Dexter, Lord Timothy 13, 14, 15, 16 Dodge,
John 96 Douglass, Dr. 57, 58 Drakenberg, C.J. 103 Drinker, Edward
105 Dryden, John 72 Dumaresq, Phillip 5 Dunham, John M. 8
ECLESTON, MR. 102 Edwards, Pierpont 93 Ellis, Miss 103 Ellis, Mr.
103 Erskine, William 48 Erving, John 6 Erving, Nancy 6
FEARON, HENRY B. 107 Follart, John 104 Forbes, Mr. 48 Forster,
Margaret 103 Foster, John 51, 52 Fox, C.J. 113 Franklin, Benjamin