SOMETHING RICH AND RACY!
Husbands should buy it for their wives. Wives should buy it for their husbands.
Have it in the house someway. It will let the sunlight in.
My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's,
A SHARP, PUNGENT BOOK,
BY
JOSIAH ALLEN'S WIFE,
Who wrote it in spite of Josiah's determination not to pay a cent to hire
anybody to read it.
It tells its own story. No one can read it without the keenest enjoyment.
It is full of humor, sarcasm and instruction.
What the Press Say:
Dickens or Mark Twain in their happiest moments never produced anything
equal to “My Opinions.”
—Flint (Mich.) Globe.
There have been few books written which have contained such a fund of quiet
and cunning humor, sarcasm and philosophy.
—Bridgeport (Conn.) Standard.
“My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's,” by Josiah Allen's Wife, a new book in
the humorous vein, has great power to amuse. Many of the chapters on the
mishaps and oddities of home life in the country, with portraiture of character,
and rendering of conversation and exposition of view, are irresistibly funny.
There is much extravagance in it, much nonsense, and also much point, and an
indefinite amount of fun.
—Toledo Weekly Blade.
“Josiah Allen's Wife” is a right down sensible woman, and her “Opinions” are
worth considering. She proves herself a dangerous rival to any of our popular
humorists.
—Putnam Patriot.
The American Publishing Company, of Hartford, have published a humorous
work entitled “My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's” by Josiah Allen's wife. It is
written in dialect, and is as full of fun from beginning to end as can well be. To
those in want of a good laugh, it can confidently be recommended, both as regards
text and illustrations, which are plentiful.
—Morning Herald, Prov., R. I.
“My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's,” is “by Josiah Allen's wife,” who, if she
don't know how to spell, certainly knows how to write a book, and in this particular
she is not unlike Josh Billings, or the late lamented Artemus Ward. The
book is exceedingly droll and humorous, cute, sarcastic and smart; and “Josiah
Allen's” wife shows that she is nobody's fool, when she “rises to explain” a
point. The illustrations are numerous and funny, and the whole thing is the
funniest book that has come to our notice since Mark Twain's “Innocents” got
abroad. In fact the latter will have to return home a while now, until the public
read and laugh over “Josiah Allen's wife,” which will have a great sale.
—
Webster Times.
The book has been republished in England. The following
shows the way it is spoken of by the press there.
“Every part of the book is written with exquisite humor, and it will be
read with real amusement, many questions of interest to the student of woman's
rights are discussed, and with much common sense. We strongly recommend
this little volume to those who are seeking for a thoroughly entertaining book.
They will pity and perhaps despise Betsey Bobbet, even though she will amuse
them; but we are deceived if they do not learn to respect Josiah Allen's Wife,
in spite of her absurd blunders, as a woman whose heart is right, and whose
brains are not addled.”
—London Queen.
PRICES:
Fine English Cloth, $ Library, $ Half Morocco, $
For an agency, address AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO,
HARTFORD, CONN.
