Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. READER! walk up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy at a perfectly ruinous rate A FABLE FOR 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 volume's 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 31st day, |