"It is a work replete with stirring adventure. Romance, incident, and accident, are blended together so as to form a highly interesting work of 334 pages."—New York Picayune.
Published and for sale byT. B. PETERSON,
No. 102 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
WILD OATS SOWN ABROAD;
OR,
ON AND OFF SOUNDINGS,
BY A GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE.
A NEW AND EXQUISITELY ORIGINAL WORK.
Have you read it? If not, then do so.
Price Fifty Cents in Paper; or Seventy Five Cents in Cloth.
Wild Oats Sown Abroad is a splendid work. It is the Private Journal of a Gentleman of Leisure and Education, and of a highly cultivated mind, in making the Tour of Europe. It is having a sale unprecedented in the annals of literature, for nothing equal to it in spiciness, vivacity, and real scenes and observations in daily travel, has ever appeared from the press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY WORK.
- Opening the Journal.
- Adventure in search of Ruin.
- Parting Tribute to Love.
- Three Desperate Days!
- The Poetry of Sea-Sickness.
- The Red Flannel Night-Cap.
- A Ship by Moonlight.
- Arrival in London.
- The Parks of London.
- Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey.
- England's Monuments.
- Madame Tussaud's Wax Works.
- The "Beauties" of Hampton Court.
- Love and Philosophy.
- "Love's Labor Lost."
- A Peep at "The Shades."
- The Modern "Aspasia."
- Noble Plea for Matrimony.
- The Lily on the Shore.
- English Mother and American Daughter.
- The "Maid of Normandie."
- An Effecting Scene.
- "Paris est un Artist."
- The Guillotine.
- "Give us Another!"
- Post Mortem Reflections.
- Fashionable Criticism.
- Whiskey Punch and Logic.
- "Shylock asks for Justice!"
- "Lorette" and "Grisette."
- Kissing Day.
- The Tattoo.
- The Masked Ball.
- The Incognita.
- The Charms of Paris.
- Changing Horses.
- A View in Lyons.
- Avignon—Petrarch and Laura.
- Our First Ruin.
- The Unconscious Blessing.
- A Crash and a Wreck.
- The Railroad of Life.
- A Night Adventure.
- "The Gods take care of Cato."
- The Triumphs of Neptune.
- The Marquisi's Foot.
- Beauties of Naples Bay.
- Natural History of the Lazaroni.
- The True Venus.
- Love and Devotion.
- The Mortality of Pompeii.
- Procession of the Host.
- The Ascent of Vesuvius.
- The Mountain Emetic.
- The Human Projectile.
- The City of the Soul.
- The Coup de Main.
- Night in the Coliseum!
- Catholicity Considered.
- Power Passing Away!
- Byron Among the Ruins.
- A Gossip with the Artists.
- Speaking Gems.
- "Weep for Adonis!"
- The Lady and the God.
- The Science of Psalmistry.
- "Sour Grapes."
- A Ramble about Tivoli.
- Illumination of St. Peter's.
- The "Niobe of Nations."
- A Ghostly Scene!
- "Honi soit qui mal y pense."
- A "Ball" without Music.