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Show J. C. TifcRBVS PUBLICATIONS. THE LIFE AND SAYINGS OF MRS. PARTINGTON, AND OTHERS OF THE PAMILT. BY B. P. SHILLABER. 1 elegant 12mo., 43 Illustrations. Price $1 25, u* Hang the books V said an appreciative examiner, to whom we handed a copy for Inspection,(I can't afford to buy them, but I can't do without this;' and Iaughirg untii the tears ran, he drew forth the purchase-money. It is just so, reader j you can't do Without this book. It is so full of genial humor and pure human nature that your wife 2nd children must hare it, to be able to realize how much enjoyment may be shut up within the lids of a book. It is full of human kindness, rich in humor, alive with wit, mingled here and there with those faint touches of melancholy which oft-times toucb Mirth's borders."-Clinton Courant. "She has caused many a lip to relax from incontinent primness into the broadest kind of a grin-has given to many a mind the material for an odd but not useless revery-has Bcooped out many a cove on the dry shores of newspaper reading, and invited the mariner reader to tarry and refresh himself. * Ruth Partington * is a Christian and a patriot. Such a book will go everywhere-be welcomed like a returned exile-do good, and cease not."-Buffalo Empress. " If it is true that one grows fat who laughs, then he who reads this book will fat up, even though he may be one of Pharaoh's l lean kine.1 That it does one good to laugh, nobody doubts. We have shook and shook while running through this charming volume, until It has seemed as though we had increased in weight some fifty gounds, more or tetoJ^MassaclmseUs Life Boat. " A regular Yankee institution is Mrs. Partington, and well deserves the compliment of a book devoted to her sayings and doings. She is here brought before the public, which Is so greatly indebted to her unique vocabulary for exhaustless stores of fun, in a style Worthy of her distinguished character."-HT. Y. Tribune. " There is a w^rld of goodness in her blessed heart, as there is a universe of quiet fun in the book be. "e us. *A gem of purest ray serene' glitters on almost every page. Everybody shorn buy the book; everybody, at least, who loves genial, quiet wit, which never wounds, but always heals where it strikes."-Independent Democrat. " It is crammed full of her choicest sayings, and rings from title page to * finis' with hei unconscious wit. It is just the book for one to read at odd moments-to take on the cars or home of an evening-or to devour in one's office of a rainy day. It is an excellent antidote for the blues."-Oneida Serald. " Housewives who occasionally get belated about their dinner, should have it lying round. It will prevent a deal of grumbling from their ' lords,' by keeping them so well employed as to make them forget their dinner."-Few Hampshire Telegraph. » Her < sayings.' have gone the world over, and given her an immortality that will glitte* and sparkle among the records of genius wherever wit and humor shall be appreciated.'- -Wot easier Palladium. 7 |