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WILD OATS SOWN ABROAD;
OR,
ON AND OFF SOUNDINGS,
BY A GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE.
A NEW AND EXQUISITELY ORIGINAL WORK.
Have you read it? If not, then do so.
Price Fifty Cents in Paper; or Seventy Five Cents in Cloth.
Wild Oats Sown Abroad is a splendid work. It is the Private Journal
of a Gentleman of Leisure and Education, and of a highly cultivated mind,
in making the Tour of Europe. It is having a sale unprecedented in the
annals of literature, for nothing equal to it in spiciness, vivacity, and real
scenes and observations in daily travel, has ever appeared from the press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK.
Opening the Journal.
Adventure in search of Ruin.
Parting Tribute to Love.
Three Desperate Days!
The Poetry of Sea-Sickness.
The Red Flannel Night-Cap.
A Ship by Moonlight.
Arrival in London.
The Parks of London.
Poet's Corner, Westminster
Abbey.
England's Monuments.
Madame Tussaud's Wax
Works.
The “Beauties” of Hampton
Court.
Love and Philosophy.
“Love's Labor Lost.”
A Peep at “The Shades.”
The Modern “Aspasia.”
Noble Plea for Matrimony.
The Lily on the Shore.
English Mother and American
Daughter.
The “Maid of Normandie.”
An Effecting Scene.
“Paris est un Artist.”
The Guillotine.
“Give us Another!”
Post Mortem Reflections.
Fashionable Criticism.
Whiskey Punch and Logic.
“Shylock asks for Justice!”
“Lorette” and “Grisette.”
Kissing Day.
The Tattoo.
The Masked Ball.
The Incognita.
The Charms of Paris.
Changing Horses.
A View in Lyons.
Avignon — Petrarch and
Laura.
Our First Ruin.
The Unconscious Blessing.
A Crash and a Wreck.
The Railroad of Life.
A Night Adventure.
“The Gods take care of
Cato.”
The Triumphs of Neptune.
The Marquisis Foot.
Beauties of Naples Bay.
Natural History of the Lazzaroni.
The True Venus.
Love and Devotion.
The Mortality of Pompeii.
Procession of the Host.
The Ascent of Vesuvius.
The Mountain Emetic.
The Human Projectile.
The City of the Soul.
The Coup de Main.
Night in the Coliseum
Catholicity Considered.
Power Passing Away!
Byron Among the Ruins.
A Gossip with the Artists.
Speaking Gems.
“Weep for Adonis!”
The Lady and the God.
The Science of Psalmistry.
“Sour Grapes.”
A Ramble about Tivoli.
Illumination of St. Peter's.
The “Niobe of Nations.”
A Ghostly Scene!
“Honi soit qui mal y pense.”
A “Ball” without Music.
Abelard and Heloise.
Scenes on the Road.
The “Tug of War.”
“There they are, by Jove!”
The Raven-Haired One!
Heaven and Hell!
The “Hamlet” of Sculpture.
The Modern Susannah.
Hey Presto! Change!
The Death Scene of Cleopatra.
An Eulogy on Tuscany.
A Real Claude Sunset.
Tasso and Byron.
The Shocking Team!
Floatings in Venice.
The Venetian Girls.
The Bell-Crowned Hat!
The “Lion's Mouth.”
The “Bridge of Sighs!”
A Subterranean Fete!
Byron and Moore in Venice.
Diana and Endymion.
The Pinch of Snuff.
The Rock-Crystal Coffin!
Eccentricity of Art.
Thoughts in a Monastery.
The Lake of Como.
Immortal Drummer Boy.
Wit, and its Reward!
The Cold Bath.
“Here we are!”
The Mountain Expose.
The “Last Rose of Summer.”
Waking the Echoes.
Watching the Avalanche.
A Beautiful Incident.
A Shot with the Long Bow.
Mt. Blanc and a full stop.
Price for the complete work, in paper cover, Fifty cents a copy only; or
handsomely bound in muslin, gilt, for Seventy-Five cents.
Copies of either edition of the work will be sent to any person at all, to
any part of the United States, free of postage, on their remitting the price
of the edition they wish, to the publisher, in a letter, post paid.
Published and for Sale by T. B. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia
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