Please see the [Transcriber’s Notes] at the end of this text.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

From several thousand “opinions,” carefully prepared for the use of the press, we select the following. We shall be happy to give the remainder in similar instalments in the future editions of “Our Show.”

[Special dispatch to the New York Herald.]

“Have just discovered the book on my editorial table—the fun I am still looking for; ’tis harder to find than Livingtone was. The African jungles were tame compared to the general wildness of these pages.—Stanley.”

[From the San Francisco Tribune.]

“No library is complete without it—in the waste basket.”

[From the London Times.]

“We admit that the volume puzzles us. We should be inclined to doubt some of the assertions contained within it, even to consider them preposterous, had we not long ago given up any attempt to account for events or circumstances occurring in America.”

[From Galignani’s Messenger, Paris.]

“We have not read this production in the original, but the French translation assures us that it is a work of grave import. Beneath the simple words there is a depth of meaning and a quiet, dignified tone of determination, which the friends of Liberty would do well to heed. It is a book to be pondered over. The illustrations are by Mons. Jacques Frost, an artist of warm imagination.”

[From the Berlin Freie Presse.]

“It is the only book of the kind we have ever seen—thank Heaven!”

[From the Vienna Court Journal.]

“The Emperor has not been seen in public for several days. We learn from reliable sources that he has been closeted in his study, translating, altering, and localizing an American volume called ‘Our Show,’ to make it appear the official record of our late International Exposition.”

[From the Pekin Argus.]

“The Authors are evidently insane.”

[From the St. Petersburg Daily News.]

“This, with Sherman’s ‘Memoirs,’ Motley’s ‘Dutch Republic,’ and Mrs. Lee Hentz’s ‘Wooed, not Won,’ presents a living argument against those who are in the habit of sneering at American literature. If this work fails to give America a first place in the rank of letters, it will keep her not far from the tail.”

[From the Constantinople Leader.]

“It is the joint production of two geniuses. We doubt whether one genius could have written it and survived.”

[From the Copenhagen Sentinel.]

“Copenhagen is shaken to its centre. Is Sweden dead? Is the land of the immortal Yywxtlmp sleeping? Has the American Exposition become a thing of the past whilst we are yet preparing for it? or are the authors of this book endeavoring, under the guise of an historical novel, to lay the foundation for poisoning the world in the future with the doctrines of Spiritualism? Philadelphia exchanges call it a ‘third term pamphlet.’ We have looked through its pages, and though failing to discover what this means, we found one term for which we thank the authors—the termination.”

[From the Hong Kong Examiner.]

“Americans should receive a book like this with fervor—once every hundred years.”

1776. FUN. HUMOR. BURLESQUE. 1876.

ONE HUNDRED YEARS A REPUBLIC.
OUR SHOW;
A HUMOROUS
ACCOUNT OF THE
INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION
IN HONOR OF THE
CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE,
FROM INCEPTION TO COMPLETION,
INCLUDING
DESCRIPTION OF BUILDINGS—BIOGRAPHIES OF MANAGERS—RECEPTIONS OF FOREIGN
DIGNITARIES—OPENING CEREMONIES—POEM—ORATION—AMUSING SURVEY
OF ALL DEPARTMENTS, INCIDENTS, ETC. ETC.

BY
DAISY SHORTCUT AND ARRY O’PAGUS.
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED BY A. B. FROST.

PHILADELPHIA:
CLAXTON, REMSEN & HAFFELFINGER,
624, 626, and 628 Market Street.
THE AMERICAN NEWS COMPANY, NEW YORK.
1876.

PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER,
705 Jayne Street.