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D. APPLETON & CO.,
346 & 348 BROADWAY, NEW-YORK,
Have just published
THE
Flush Times of Mississippi and Alabama,
By JOSEPH G. BALDWIN.
ILLUSTRATED, 12mo. 330 PAGES.
These sketches of the “Flush Times” of our own day, personating
our own citizens, are written with entertaining spirit, elegance, and
humor, and cannot fail to contribute to the enjoyment and gratification
of all readers.
Few works have ever been issued from the press which has been as
favorably received by the whole public as this, upwards of Nine Thousand
having been sold within a few weeks after its appearance.
Contents of “Flush Times.”—OVID BOLUS, Esq., Attorney at Law, and
Solicitor in Chancery.—MY FIRST APPEARANCE AT THE BAR, Higginbotham
vs. Swink, Slander.—THE BENCH AND THE BAR. Introduction—Jolly
Times—Chaos of Jurisprudence—The Era of Quashing—Jim. T., a Character—
How to get rid of Counts in a Declaration—A Nonsuit—The Commonwealth vs.
Foreman—Yankee Schoolmaster in a Fix—The Argument and Verdict, &c.—
HOW THE TIMES SERVED THE VIRGINIANS.—Virginians in a New
Country—The Rise, Decline, and Fall of the Rag Empire.—ASSAULT AND
BATTERY.—Burrell or Burwell Shines—His Testimony in Full—Verdict of the
Jury.—SIMON SUGGS, Jr., Esq.; A LEGAL BIOGRAPHY.—Correspondence.—
SQUIRE A. AND THE FRITTERS.—JONATHAN AND THE CONSTABLE.
—SHARP FINANCIERING.—CAVE BURTON, ESQ., OF KENTUCKY.—
His Traits and Characteristics—The Earthquake Story—A Breach of Promise—A
Fining Judge—Scene in a Court House—Miss Jule Pritcher—Catastrophe, &c., &c.
—JUSTIFICATION AFTER VERDICT.—AN AFFAIR OF HONOR.—HON.
S. S. PRENTISS.—A Sketch of his Character, and Review of his Public Career.—
THE BAR OF THE SOUTH-WEST.—Jurisprudence in a New Country—The
Young Attorney and the Celebrated Lawyer—Litigation Attending Frontier Life—
The Poetry of Swindling, &c., &c.—HON. FRANCIS STROTHER.—“Portrait
of a Gentleman”—The Genius of Labor—Rare Union of the Suaviter and the
Fortiter—The Hon. Francis' Munificence—His Services to the State, &c., &c.—
MR. TEE AND MR. GEE.—SCAN. MAG.—AN EQUITABLE SET-OFF.—
A COOL REJOINDER.—A HUNG COURT.—Smith vs. Johnson.—SAMUEL
HELE, ESQ., A Yankee Schoolmistress and an Alabama Lawyer.—JOHN
STOUT, ESQ., AND MARKSULLIVAN.—MONSLOW—JO. HEYFRON—OLD
UNCLE JOHN OLIVE.—EXAMINING A CANDIDATE FOR LICENSE.
Choice New English Works of Fiction.
I.
THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE.
A Tale. 2 vols. 12mo. Paper, $1 00; cloth, $1 50.
“A novel of really high merit. The characters are most skillfully drawn out in the
course of the story. The death of Guy is one of the most touching things we ever
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cordially.”
—Com. Adv.
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and wiser for the lessons hidden under its deeply interesting narrative.”
—London
Guardian.
“A well written, spirited and interesting work. It is full of character, sparkling
with conversation, and picturesque with paintings of nature. The plot is well conceived
and handsomely wrought out. There is a freshness of feeling and tone of healthy
sentiment about such novels, that recommend them to public favor.”
—Albany Spectator.
II.
LIGHT AND SHADE;
OR, THE YOUNG ARTIST
A Tale. By Anna Harriet Drury, author of “Friends and Fortune,”
“Eastbury,” &c. 12mo. Paper cover, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.
“It is a beautiful and ably written story.”
—Churchman.
“The story is well written, and will be read with much pleasure as well as profit.”
—
Lansingburgh Gazette.
“A novel with a deep religious tone, bearing and aim—a most attractive style.”
—
Springfield Republican.
“We commend her books to the young, as among those from which they have
nothing to fear.”
—New-Haven Courier.
“A very well told tale, mingling the grave and gay, the tender and severe, in fair
proportions. It displays a genius and skill in the writer of no ordinary measure.”
—Trib
III.
THE DEAN'S DAUGHTER;
Or, THE DAYS WE LIVE IN.
By Mrs. Gore. 1 vol. 12mo. Paper, 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents
“The `Dean's Daughter' will doubtless be one of the most successful books of the
reason. It abounds in all those beauties which have hitherto distinguished Mrs. Gore's
novels. The management of the incidents of the story is as clever, the style is as brilliant,
the satire as keen, and the conversation as flowing, as in the best of her works.”
—
Daily News.
“It will be read with pleasure by thousands.”
—Herald.
“Mrs. Gore is perhaps the wittiest of modern novelists. Of all the ladies who in
later times have taken in hand the weapon of satire, her blade is certainly the most
trenchant. A vapid lord or a purse-proud citizen, a money-hunting woman of fashion
or a toad-eater, a humbug in short, male or female, and of whatsoever cast or quality he
may be, will find his pretensions well castigated in some one or other of her brilliant
pages; while scattered about in many places are passages and scenes of infinite tenderness,
showing that our authoress is not insensible to the gentler qualities of our nature
and is mistress of pathos in no common degree.”
—Examiner
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