Heroic Frogs and Demigods of Mice,
Troxartes’ vengeance and Pelides’ fate.
Hosts routed, lakes of gore, and hills of slain,
An Iliad, work divine! raised from a day’s campaign.
Burlesques of Educational Works
Guides, Tutors’ Assistants, and Histories.
In Alphabetical Order.
The Art of Pluck. Being a Treatise after the Fashion of Aristotle; writ for the use of Students in the Universities. By Scriblerus Redivivus. (This clever work was written by the Rev. Edward Caswell, and first published in 1835. It has run through many editions, and can still be obtained from Mr. J. Vincent, Bookseller, Oxford.)
The Book of Fun; or, Laugh and Learn. London: James Gilbert. This contained “The Illustrated English Grammar;” “Rhetoric and Elocution;” “Illustrated Arithmetic or, Cyphering made Comical;” “The Comic History of Rome, and the Rumuns.” These were all humourously illustrated.
Catalogue of the Valuable Contents of Strawberry Hill, the Seat of Horace Walpole, 24 days’ sale, by Mr. George Robins. This catalogue is often accompanied by the humorous parody: “Specimen of the Catalogue of the Great Sale at Goosebery Hall, with Puffatory Remarks.”