table, unexpectedly,
some sunshiny morning--to behold, for the first time, the darling of your
meditation in a suit of embossed muslin. How your heart turns over--if you
are not used to the thing. How you make pauses between your coffee and
muffins, to admire the clear typography, the luxurious paper, the gold
letters on the back!

Messrs. Printem & Sellem sent me two out-of-town papers, containing notices
of "DAISY." These notices were solicited by advance copies of the work, for
the purpose of being used in the publication advertisement. It is curious
to remark how great minds will differ.

[_From the Blundertown Journal._]

"NEW PUBLICATIONS.

"DAISY'S NECKLACE, AND WHAT CAME OF IT. _New-York: Printem and
Sellem._

THIS production is an emanation from the culminating mind of glorious
genius! Nothing like it has been produced in this century. It
possesses all the fine elements of Dickens' novels, without any of
their numerous defects. Its scope, its pathos, and wit, is[B] beyond
all praise. Our Britannic brethren will no longer ask, 'Who reads an
American book?' For we can reply, 'The World!'

"We learn, from good authority, that the publishers have received
orders for twenty thousand copies of the work, in advance of its
publication. We have no doubt of it; for 'Daisy's Necklace' will shed
new lustre on the name of American Literature! Envious authors will
abuse the work. As the immortal Goethe says, '_De gustibus non est
disputandum!_' Our rush of advertisements prevents us from making
voluminous extracts from the novel; this, however, would be useless,
as _everybody_ will read it for _themselves_.

"Orders addressed to HIGGINS & CO., of this town, will be promptly
filled."

I should take the editor of the "Blundertown Journal" to be a man of
cultured taste, appreciative and discriminating. The second review was not
quite so "favorable," and can scarcely be called "a first-rate notice."

[_From the Frogpond Gazette._]

"DAISY'S NECKLACE" is the silly title of an absurd novel about to be
issued by Printem & Sellem, of New-York. From the fact that the
author's name is withheld from the title-page, we infer that he had
_some_ friends--some few who were not wholly willing that he should
make a donkey of himself. We have read a great deal of trash in our
day; but 'Daisy's Necklace' is the king of all va