Now publishing in Parts, price One Shilling each, THE LONDON ANECDOTES FOR ALL READERS. THIRTY years have elapsed since the first publication of "The Percy Anecdotes,"-a collection of traits of celebrated individuals, scenes, and events, which enjoyed an extraordinary share of popularity. It is, therefore, matter of surprise, that, within the above interval, scarcely any similar plan has been devised for recording, in an agreeable and familiar manner, the conversational characteristics of distinguished contemporaries; or of profiting by the literary wealth of this class, which has been showered forth within the last quarter of a century. especially are the almost countless volumes of Memoirs, Personal Recollections, Adventures, and Private Histories of the Lives and Times of Public Characters, which form an important feature in our Contemporary Literature. Such Such golden stores it is proposed to make available in "THE LONDON ANECDOTES,"-not so much by way of quota The London Anecdotes-CONTinued. tion, as by abstract, which shall preserve the salient points of the Anecdote, and reject its remplissage. The Collection will, at the same time, present the Personal Recollections of its Editor, who, for thirty years past, has enjoyed innumerable interchanges of opinion, experience, and observation, such as can only be garnered during a lifetime of great literary industry. With these means and appliances, and painstaking beyond the mere employment of "scissors and paste," the Editor hopes to produce a work above the character of a rechauffe Collection. Thus, of his Books and Recollections it may be said "When they have joined their pericranies, Out skips a book of miscellanies." Each volume of "THE LONDON ANECDOTES" will be r classification. The subjects will be chosen with especial regard to living interest, and the prime movers of thes eventful times. Hence, the Lives of Travellers and Dis coverers, Inventors and Improvers, will yield abundan records of what may be received as the actual spirit of th age. The First Part contains a Series of Anecdotes of the Electric Telegraph. The Second Part comprises Anecdotes of Popular Authors. The Third Part will contain Anecdotes of Inventors & Discoverers › Other Subjects will follow at stated intervals; and each Volume will be appropriately illustrated. Extracts from Reviews. "Mr. Bogue has commenced a new serial under the above title, on an improved plan of the famous Percy Anecdotes, published thirty years ago, and which have been so popular with all classes of readers. From the specimen we have of this new anecdotical undertaking, we predict for it a more extended popularity. Since the labours of the brothers Percy were completed, an enormous mass of new material has accumulated in the conversational characteristics of distinguished contemporaries, and in almost countless volumes of memoirs, personal recollections, adventures, and private histories of the lives and times of public characters, which form an important feature in our contemporary literature. From these golden stores it is proposed to select all that is racy and interesting. The first part, one of the most delightful books of its class with which we are acquainted, is devoted to the development of the applications of that wondrous power-the wonder of our age the electric telegraph: not so much in the scientific details of its principle and construction, as to a graphic anecdotical record of its most striking successes. It is an excellent book for young and old, and one of the best of companions for a long railway journey. Mr. William Harvey has contributed some graceful illustrations."-Weekly Times. "Many of the anecdotes are very entertaining."-Athenæum. "A very amusing and interesting selection."-Douglas Jerrold's Newspaper. "Many of the anecdotes are curious and interesting.”—Literary Gazette. "Railway travellers, we believe, find continuous reading on a journey not quite agreeable or practicable, and are induced to have recourse to the flying sheet and other ephemeral prints. Those who desire something more than a pastime will find many curious facts brought together and amusingly told in this brochure.”— Railway Chronicle. "This is the very perfection of a book for reading as you roll along in a coach, or are whirled along in a railway carriage, or sit lazily in an easy chair after dinner; pleasant company, too, on a green-lane ramble, or in the shady corner of a hay field, because the dear, good-natured book only asks you to read it, and leaves your mind at liberty to wander wherever it pleases. It is just the sort of book which comes well and usefully-ay, and gracefully too, written as it is in a free and easy sort of a way. If you have time and inclination, you can philosophize and moralize to your heart's content; but this the author never does for you; he merely tells his anecdotes in a most unassuming style, and in the very manner of moving along."-London Journal. "The success of the Percy Anecdotes thirty years ago has suggested the idea of a publication of a similar kind under the title of THE LONDON ANECDOTES. The first volume, which is got up with Extracts from Reviews-CONTINUED. the neatness that distinguishes Mr. Bogue's publications, is devoted to the Electric Telegraph, of which we have many amusing and instructive tales recorded."-Cambridge Chronicle. "It would be impossible to convey in a small compass any idea of the varied fund of amusement contained in this little volume. We strongly recommend it to railway travellers as a companion in whose entertaining qualities they will not be disappointed."— Herapath's Railway Journal. "This is a new serial, and one which we hail with satisfaction, as calculated not only to please but to profit. The neat little volume before us we can certify to be a most interesting one. The series is designed to form a continuation of the 'Percy Anecdotes,' and the first volume, at least, possesses all the elements of popularity."-Hull Advertiser. "This is a most amusing and instructive little volume. A more agreeable present to an intelligent, inquisitive young person of either sex, we cannot well imagine. A great sale may be fairly anticipated for this delightful work."-Nottingham Mercury. "Both the form and the arrangement exhibit industry and judgment on the part of the editor; and we think that the publisher may reasonably calculate upon the collection attaining to considerable popularity. It is a work which everybody may read with interest."-Hull Herald. "It is a remarkable fact that nothing escapes the attention of the literary men of London. Like King Midas, they touch and try to turn everything into gold. Here is a neat petite volume of 128 pages-a collection of anecdotes, serious and laughable, relating entirely to the Telegraph since its completion and operation. The publication being small, and also cheap, will be the best possible companion on a railway journey. And for a half-hour's relaxation from severer studies, at home, it will be found by no means uninteresting."-Yorkshireman. "The anecdotes have been well selected, and exhibit both taste and judgment on the part of the editor."-Plymouth Times. "This is the first of a proposed series of little volumes of anecdotes, each volume being devoted to a separate subject. Many of our readers are old enough to remember a series published more than twenty years since, under the title of The Percy Anecdotes.' Those were immensely popular, and the present series is not unlikely to become equally so."-Banbury Guardian. "An exceedingly amusing little work, published at a trifling cost. It may be well styled a volume for all readers: it will be found an interesting pocket companion."-Plymouth Herald. "A very amusing as well as instructive collection of anecdotes. We recommend this little volume to our readers, as an agreeable book to take up at odd moments."-Manchester Chronicle. "THE LONDON ANECDOTES FOR ALL READERS is a small volume on the plan of the once popular Percy Anecdotes.' The subject to which this number is confined is the Electric Telegraph, of which invention all the current anecdotes-grave, gay, instructive, and amusing, are related."-Birmingham Journal. |