TINSLEY BROTHERS' NEW SIX-SHILLING VOLUMES. AMUSING, ENTERTAINING, AND INSTRUCTIVE. Origin of Fairs, The Bearded Woman, The Flying Man, A Female Hercules, The Fire-eater, Dwarfs, Giants, &c. The Old Showman and the Old London Fairs. By THOMAS FROST, Author of "Circus Life and Circus Celebrities." 1 vol. crown 8vo. "We have to thank him for a most agreeable volume, full of chatty and pleasant information. All who are interested in theatrical matters should read it at once."Era. "One of the most amusing books of the season."-Guardian. Clowns, Riders, Acrobats, the Astleys, Ducrows, Cooks, Battys, Henglers, Sangers, &c. Circus Life and Circus Celebrities. By THOMAS Frost, Author of "The Old Showman and the Old London Fairs," &c. 1 vol. crown 8vo. "A more interesting and amusing record can, indeed, scarcely be found."-Sunday Times. "We must take leave of an interesting book with the remark that Circus life has been fortunate in its historian."- Academy. "We seem indeed in devouring the pages of this truly interesting volume to be living the days of our youth over again."-Bell's Weekly Messenger. "Mr. Frost's volume answers its purpose completely, and no doubt many will turn to its pages with interest."-Era. Dr. Johnson, Boswell, and Goldsmith at the Mitre; Coleridge and Charles Lamb at the Salutation; Swift, Addison, Dryden, and Garrick at "Button's ;" Ben Jonson at the Three Cranes, &c. Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings, including the Origin of Signs, and Reminiscences connected with 'I averns, Coffee-houses, Clubs, &c. Edited by CHARLES HINDLEY. With many quaint Illustrations. 1 vol. crown 8vo. "Mr. Hindley has brought together in this entertaining volume a mass of curious facts which are well worth studying, giving, as many of them do, reliable illustrations of the manners and customs of different times in our social history."-Public Opinion. "Mr. Charles Hindley has managed to compile a cheery, racy book of old-fashioned anecdote and quaint reminiscences connected with taverns, coffee-houses, clubs, &c. His Tavern Anecdotes and Sayings' is a most readable volume, full of much curious antiquarian learning about the origin of tavern signs, also of phrases and proverbs applicable to the various stages and forms of wine-bibbing. It would have been very easy to vulgarise the subject, and we must commend Mr. Hindley on account of the delicacy and good taste with which he has strung his scraps together. He has done his work in a thoroughly genial spirit, entirely free from the slightest flavour of coarseness or jack-puddingism. One may fairly say that, after perusing this work, the reader's verdict will be that it is the production of as merry a man, within the limits of becoming mirth, as he ever spent an hour's talk withal."-The Daily Telegraph. THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF A CHEAP JACK. BY ONE OF THE FRATERNITY. EDITED BY CHARLES HINDLEY, EDITOR OF "TAVERN ANECDOTES AND SAYINGS, INCLUDING THE ORIGIN OF LONDON: TINSLEY BROTHERS, 8, CATHERINE STREET, STRAND. 1876. [All Rights of Translation and Reproduction are reserved.] |