Doesticks What Crestick, P.10. Subsys 2. K. Philandu Daestick, P.18. NEW YORK: EDWARD LIVERMORE, 20 BEEKMAN 1855. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1855, by EDWARD LIVERMORE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York Press of Geo. C. Rand, 20 Beekman St. R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER, 53 Vesey Street, N. Y THIS IS NEITHER A HISTORY, ROMANCE, LIFE-DRAMA, BIOGRAPHY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY, NOR POST MORTEM EXAMINATION, BUT A SERIES OF Unpremeditated Literary Extravaganzas, WRITTEN WITHOUT MALICE AFORETHOUGHT BY THE SINGLE HERO THELEOF, PURELY FOR HIS OWN GLORIFICATION, AND PRINTED BY THE PUBLISHER SOLELY FOR HIS OWN PROFIT. Nothing. IN a literary point of view this book claims nothing : This is the manufacturer's assertion. In a literary point of view this book amounts to nothing. This will be the reader's conclusion. And if any skeptical person insists upon investigating the matter for himself, he will eventually be compelled to acknowledge the verity of this remark; and will, at the same time, bear a strong testimony to the sagacity of the publisher, who has put his trust in nothing—for he will have bought the book. This work simply professes to be sketches of various persons, places, and events-some of which have been published, and some hav'n't; some are bad, and some are worse; but all have a claim to originality in treat |