Carey & Hart's Catalog 1852

The Best Illustrated Works at 50 Cents a Volume

CAREY & HART'S
Library of Humorous American Works,
With Illustrations by Darley.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

THEATRICAL APPRENTICESHIP
AND
Anecdotal Recollections
OF SOL. SMITH, Esq.
COMEDIAN, LAWYER, ETC. ETC.

WITH EIGHT ORIGINAL DESIGNS.

CONTENTS.

Early Scenes—Wanderings In the West—Cincinnati in Early Life—"One Man in his Time plays many Parts"—Expedient to gain a Livelihood—Early Days of Edwin Forrest—The Manager in Distress—Pittsburgh Theatricals—Philadelphia Gardens in 1824—The Old Chatham Theatre—Star-gazing in New York—Concerts in New Jersey—Getting thro' a Winter—Strolling in Canada—The Murderous Alleghanians—Dawning of the Drama in Lewistown—Floating down the Stream—Theatricals in Kentucky—Anecdotal Recollections since 1827—A Theatrical Dentist—The Rival Vocalists—Pettifogging in St. Louis—A Friendly Game of Poker—Tom the Curtain Man—The Manager and Planter, Signor Matthieu—Letter to Rev. A. Ballard—My First and Last Sermon—Tennessee Door-keeper—The Player and the Phrenologist—Interview with an Editor, &c. &c.

"A very whimsical apprenticeship it is, making it impossible to preserve, while reading it, the slightest approach to gravity. Indeed, we have seldom met with a book so irresistibly provocative of a perpetual 'broad grin.' It is as good as a play, and a play of the richest comedy."—Jeffersonian.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

MAJOR JONES'
SKETCHES OF TRAVEL.
COMPRISING THE SCENES, INCIDENTS AND
ADVENTURES IN HIS
TOUR FROM GEORGIA TO CANADA.
With Eight Original Engravings, from
Designs by Darley.
THIRD EDITION.

"Not only fun, but information is to be gained from them."—Saturday Post.

"It contains palpable and amusing bits on the people and customs of different places."—Baltimore Patriot.

"The wit is of the 'Sam Slick' sort."—N. Y. Commercial.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

STREAKS OF SQUATTER LIFE
AND
FAR-WEST SCENES.

A SERIES OF HUMOROUS SKETCHES DESCRIPTIVE OF INCIDENTS AND CHARACTER IN THE WILD WEST.

BY "SOLITAIRE,"
(JOHN S. ROBB, of St. Louis, Mo.)
AUTHOR OF "SWALLOWING OYSTERS ALIVE."

With Eight Humorous Illustrations by Darley.

CONTENTS.

The Western Wanderings of a Typo—"Not a Drop more, Major, unless it's sweetened"—Nettle Bottom Ball—A Cat Story—A Spiritual Sister—Hoss Allen's Apology—Natural Acting—A Canal Adventure—The Standing Candidate—An Emigrant's Perils—Fun with a "Bar"—Telegraphing an Express—The Preemption Right—Yaller Pledges—George Munday, the Hatless Prophet—Courting in French Hollow—The Second Advent—Settlement Fun—"Doing" a Landlord—Who is Sir George Simpson?—Letters from a Baby—Seth Tinder's First Courtship—The Death Struggle—"Who are They?"

"Mr. Robb is better known probably as 'Solitaire,' under which name he has written some very broad, farcical sketches of Western manners for the Reveille, of St. Louis. Some of the sketches in this volume are spirited and cleverly written, and they are all lively and full of animal spirits; but they are too brief to contain a development of character. The best sketch is the story of 'Old Sugar,' which is illustrated by an exceedingly fine drawing by Darley. We feel, after inspecting the designs in this book, that we have heretofore underrated the comic powers of this admirable artist; there are evidences in some of these designs of a very high order of genius."—N. Y. Mirror.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

MAJOR JONES' COURTSHIP.
Twelfth Edition, with Two Additional Letters,
AND THIRTEEN HUMOROUS PLATES.

CONTENTS.

Major Jones' Courtship detailed, with other Scenes and Adventures, in a Series of Letters by himself.

"Messrs. Carey & Hart have published the drollest of the droll books of the season. It is a strange production, but so brimful of fun, that half a drop would make it run over."—U. S. Gazette.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

THE DRAMA AT POKERVILLE,
The Bench and Bar of Jurytown,
AND OTHER
STORIES AND INCIDENTS.
BY "EVERPOINT,"
(J. M. FIELD, ESQ., OF THE ST. LOUIS REVEILLE.)

CONTENTS.

The Drama in Pokerville—The Great Small Affair Announcement—Feeling in Pokerville—The Great Small Affair Opening—The Great Pokerville Preliminaries—The Great Small Affair Mystery—The Great Pokerville Re-union—The Great Small Affair Dinner—The Great Pokerville "Saw"—The Great Small Affair Scandal—The Great Small Affair Chastisement—The Great Small Affair Duel—What was built on the Great Small Affair Foundation—The Bench and Bar of Jurytown—A Sucker in a Warm Bath—An "Awful Place"—The Elk Runners—"Old Sol" in a Delicate Situation—The "Gagging Scheme," or, West's Great Picture—Establishing the Science—Ole Bull in the "Solitude"—How our Friend B—— 's Hair went—A Fancy Barkeeper—"Mr. Nobble!"—"Honey Run"—A Hung Jury—Paternal Gushings—A Werry Grave Exhortation—"Your Turn next, Sir"—Stopping to "Wood"—Death of Mike Fink—Establishing a Connection—A Night in a Swamp—Steamboat Miseries—A Resurrectionist and his Freight.

"When we say that it is entirely worthy of him, in design and execution, our readers 'had better believe it,' we could not pay the work a higher compliment."—N. Y. Spirit of the Times.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

A QUARTER RACE IN KENTUCKY,
AND
OTHER STORIES.
BY W. T. PORTER, ESQ.
EDITOR OF THE "BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS," ETC.

CONTENTS.

A Quarter Race in Kentucky—A Shark Story—Lanty Oliphant in Court—Bill Morse on the City Taxes—Ance Veasy's Fight with Reub Sessions—The Fastest Funeral on Record—Going to Bed before a Young Lady—A Millerite Miracle—Old Singletire—"Running a Saw" on a French Gentleman—Breaking a Bank—Taking the Census—Dick Harlau's Tennessee Frolic—"Falling off a Log" in a Game of "Seven up"—The "Werry Fast Crab"—"French without a Master"—A Rollicking Dragoon Officer—The Georgia Major in Court—Uncle Billy Brown "Glorious"—Old Tuttle's Last Quarter Race—Bill Dean, the Texan Ranger—The Steamboat Captain who was averse to Racing—Bob Herring the Arkansas Bear-Hunter—McAlpin's Trip to Charleston—Indian Rubber Pills—A Murder Case in Mississippi—Kicking a Yankee—A "Down-east" Original—Somebody in my Bed—A Day at Sol. Slice's—Cupping on the Starnum—A Bear Story—Playing Poker in Arkansas—&c. &c.

"It is illustrated with original engravings from designs by Darley. The 'Quarter Race in Kentucky' is one of the best stories that was ever penned, and the volume contains a number of others, that have from time to time appeared in the Spirit of the Times, which are hard to beat."—N. O. Picayune.

Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)

THE YANKEE
AMONGST THE MERMAIDS.
BY W. E. BURTON, COMEDIAN.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARLEY.

CONTENTS.

The Yankee amongst the Mermaids; a Yarn by a Cape Codder,