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Declined with Thanks --Epigrams on Authors--Poetical Graces--Poetry on Panes--English Folk Rhymes--The Poetry of Toast Lists and Menu Cards--Toasts and Toasting--Curious American Old Time Gleanings--The Earliest American Poetess: Anne Bradstreet--A Playful Poet: Miss Catherine Fanshawe--A Popular Song Writer: Mrs. John Hunter--A Poet of the Poor: Mary Pyper--The Poet of the Fisher-Folk: Mrs. Susan K. Phillips--A Poet and Novelist of the People: Thomas Miller--The Cottage Countess--The Compiler of
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Old Moore's Almanack
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An interesting volume.
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Turn where you will, there is information and entertainment in this book.
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The volume is most enjoyable.
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The volume consists of entertaining chapters written in a chatty style.
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A readable volume about authors and books.... Like Mr. Andrews's other works, the book shows wide out-of-the-way reading.
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Dull after-dinner speakers should be compelled to peruse this volume, and ornament their orations and per-orations with its gems.
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An entertaining volume.... No matter where the book is opened, the reader will find some amusing and instructive matter.
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Readable and entertaining.
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Mr. Andrews delights in the production of the pleasant, gossipy order of books. He is well qualified, indeed, to do so, for he is painstaking in the collection of interesting literary facts, methodical in setting them forth, and he loves books with genuine ardour.
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We heartily commend this volume to the attention of readers who are in any way interested in literature.