MELVILLE D. LANDON ("ELI PERKINS").
1 Vol., 12mo, Cloth, with Portrait, $1.50.
In this new and taking volume, Mr. Landon recounts his thirty years' experience as a humorous writer and lecturer. "Eli Perkins" needs no introduction. His name and fame are familiar to everybody——who laughs. Reminiscences of such an exceptional career promise an intellectual treat—and the book amply fulfills the promise. In fact it does more; for Mr. Landon has not only put into it his own good stories, but he quotes, with charming skill, scores of others that he has heard told by the well-known men whom he has met in the course of his professional life. Thus, in his acknowledgment, Mr. Landon says that he has listened to thousands of anecdotes, reminiscences, and funny experiences from the lips of the following witty, wise, and eloquent thinkers, now dead: Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner, Generals Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Admiral Farragut, Beecher, Roscoe Conkling, Garfield, Wendell Phillips, W. R. Travers, Artemus Ward, Nasby, Josh Billings, John G. Saxe, and others. Among the living, Chauncey M. Depew, General Butler, Horace Porter, G. W. Curtis, Jay Gould, Eugene Field, Mark Twain, O. W. Holmes, Bret Harte, and John Habberton have helped to enrich the pages of this work.
"Thirty Years of Wit" will be found, therefore, not only a fascinating book of reminiscences, but a perfect treasury of the choicest and keenest, as well as the wisest, American humor.
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