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Show J. G. DERBY'S PUBLICATIONS. A BOOK OF RAKE HUMOE! T H E W I D O W B E D O T T P A P E RS BY FRANCIS M. WHITOBER WITH AN INTROnUCTION BY ALICE B. NEAL. One volume 12mo., with 8 spirited illustrations by Ballas and Orr Price $1 25. Extract from a Letter to the Author by the late Joseph C. Neal " Our readers talk of nothing else, and almost despise ' Neal' if the * Widow * be not there. An excellent critic in these matters, said to me the other day, that he regarded thedi as the best Yankee papers yet written, and such is indeed the general sentiment. I know, for instance of a lady who, for several days after reading one of them, waa continually, and often at momenta the most inopportune, bursting forth into fits of violent laug) r, and, believe me, that you, gifted with such powers, ought not to speak disparaging f the gift which thus brings wholesome satire home to every reader." C O N T E N T S . Hszekiah Bedott. The Widow Essays Poetry. Widow Jenkins' Animosity. Mr. Crane Walks in. The Widow Discourses of Pumpkins. The Widow Loses her Beau. Mr. Orane about to Propose. Mr. Crane Walks out. The Widow " Sets her Cap." The Widow Resolves to leave Wiggletown. The Widow Trades with a Pedlar. '"he Widow and Aunt Maguire Discourse on Various Topics. The Widow having Heard that Elder Sniffles Is Sick, Writes to him. The Widow Resorts to Elder Sniffles for Religious Instruction. The Widow concludes to Publish. The Widow Prepares to Reoeive Elder Snif-ies on Thanksglviug-Day. The Widow Retires to a Grove in the rear I of Elder Sniffles' House. The Widow Writes to her Daughter, MB, Jupiter Smith. The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Abroad. The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles at Home. The Rev. Mrs. Sniffles Expresses her SentU ments in Regard to the Parsonage. Aunt Maguire's Experience, Aunt Maguire's Description of the Donation Party. Aunt Maguire Treats of the Contemplated Sewing Society at Scrabble Hill. Aunt Maguire Continues her Account ofl the Sewing Society. Aunt Maguire's Visit to Slabtown. Visit to Slabtown Continued. Mrs. Maguire's Account of Deacon Whipple. Mrs. Mudlaw's Recipe for Potatoe Pudding. Morning Calls; or, Every Body's Particular \ Friend. |