OR, BETTER —
I like, as a thing that the reader’s first fancy may strike, an old fashioned title-page, such as presents a tabular view of the volumes contents, —
A GLANCE AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES
(Mrs. Malaprop’s Word)
FROM THE TUB OF DIOGENES;
A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY,
THAT IS,
A SERIES OF JOKES
BY A WONDERFUL QUIZ
Who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace, on the top of the tub.
SET FORTH IN
October, the 21st day, in the year ‘48.
G.P. PUTNAM, BROADWAY.
It being the commonest mode of procedure, I premise a few candid remarks