The Story of Our Post Office.
By Marshall Cushing, Private Secretary to Postmaster-General Wanamaker.
A complete story of our National Post Office Department, turned inside out; crammed full of information and the most romantic, laughable, tragic, and wonderful incidents on record. It includes descriptions of mail transportation in this country and across the water; of the manufacture of stamps and postal cards; of the methods and treasures of the Dead Letter Office. It gives pictures and sketches of the chief postmasters of the country, relates the government's encounters with frauds, lotteries, and green goods men, and describes the work of women in this department. The author is widely known as one of the raciest and ablest writers in America. The position he has occupied with the Postmaster-General of the United States for four years is the highest commendation of his work.
The Story of Government.
By Henry Austin.
This work treats of Evolution and Government, as traced from animals to savage tribes, upwards through the successive stages of barbarism and civilization. By means of a wealth of anecdote and allusion it introduces the reader into gypsy camps, Fenian and Nihilistic meetings, criminal colonies, modern republics, and picturesque courts of bygone centuries. It is a treasury of knowledge previously unpublished, taught in no text-book, and unknown in universities; written so plainly and picturesquely that a child will understand and a philosopher enjoy. Its field is the world, and its audience humanity. Indorsed by Edward Everett Hale, Vicar-General William Byrne, Gen. Douglas Frazar, Edward Bellamy, and many others represented in the world of letters. One of the foremost women of the day, Mary A. Livermore, says: "The section relating to modern women is admirable."
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