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Title: The Olden Time Series, Vol. 1: Curiosities of the Old Lottery
Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts

Author: Henry M. Brooks

Release Date: March 12, 2006 [EBook #17970]

Language: English

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_THE OLDEN-TIME SERIES._

16mo. Per vol., 50 cents.

There appears to be, from year to year, a growing popular taste for
quaint and curious reminiscences of "Ye Olden Time," and to meet this,
Mr. Henry M. Brooks has prepared a series of interesting handbooks. The
materials have been gleaned chiefly from old newspapers of Boston and
Salem, sources not easily accessible, and while not professing to be
history, the volumes contain much material for history, so combined and
presented as to be both amusing and instructive. The titles of some of
the volumes indicate their scope and their promise of entertainment:--

CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY.
DAYS OF THE SPINNING-WHEEL.
SOME STRANGE AND CURIOUS PUNISHMENTS.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENTS.
LITERARY CURIOSITIES.
NEW-ENGLAND SUNDAY, ETC.

"It has been the good fortune of the writer to be allowed a peep at the
manuscript for this series and he can assure the lovers of the
historical and the quaint in literature that something both valuable and
pleasant is in store for them. In the specialties treated of in these
books Mr. Brooks has been for many years a careful collector and
student, and it is gratifying to learn that the material is to be
committed to book form."--_Salem Gazette._

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THE OLDEN TIME SERIES

CURIOSITIES OF THE OLD LOTTERY

_"There is some soul of goodness in things evil,
Would men observingly distil it out."_