A Fable for Critics

by James Russell Lowell

FABLE FOR CRITICS.

Reader! wake up at once (it will soon be too late) and buy
at a perfectly ruinous rate

A

FABLE FOR CRITICS;

OR

Better—
I like, as a thing that the reader's first fancy may strike,
an old fashioned title-page,
such as presents a tabular view of the volume's contents—

A GLANCE

AT A FEW OF OUR LITERARY PROGENIES

(Mrs. Malaprop's word)

FROM

THE TUB OF DIOGENES;

 

THAT IS,

A SERIES OF JOKES

By A Wonderful Qufs,

who accompanies himself with a rub-a-dub-dub, full of spirit and grace,
on the top of the tub.

 

SET FORTH IN

October, the 21st day, in the year '48

BY

G. P. PUTNAM, BROADWAY.

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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, by
George P. Putnam,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of
New-York.

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Contents (not listed in original)

• To the Reader
• A Fable for the Critics

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