"Really funny. You have to laugh—laugh suddenly and unexpectedly."—N. Y. Times Review.
CHEERFUL AMERICANS
Illustrated by Mmes. Shinn, Cory, and others.
Seventeen humorous tales, including three quaint automobile stories, the "Americans Abroad" series, "The Man of Putty," etc.
"The mere name and the very cover are full of hope.... This small volume is a safe one to lend to a gambler, an invalid, a hypochondriac, or an old lady; more than safe for the normal man."—Nation.
DAVY JONES' YARNS and other Salted Songs
By Thomas R. Ybarra. With over 30 illustrations by Henry Mayer of the New York Times. $1.25 net.
A wild book in which the imagination and humor of both versifier and artist are restrained by nothing but propriety. Davy Jones has mad adventures with the Swiss Admiral, Cannibals, the Czar, Mince Pirates, the Revolution Bug, etc.
"A volume of delightfully whimsical humor ... rollicking rhyme ... the pictures are as merrily grotesque as the verses."—Chicago Record-Herald.
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