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JOHN GRAHAM. THE END * * * * * NOTABLE BOOKS OF AMERICAN HUMOR FROM THE LIST OF SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, BOSTON * * * * * BY FINLAY PETER DUNNE ("MR. DOOLEY") "Mr. Dooley must be added to the acquaintance of all who esteem good sense and good humor. He is worthy to take his place as a national satirist beside Hosea Biglow."--_The Academy_, London. * * * =MR. DOOLEY: IN PEACE AND IN WAR (70th thousand)= "We awoke in the morning to kneel at the shrine of Dooley, and to confess that here was the man, here the very fellow, we had long been waiting for,--here at last America's new humorist."--MAX PEMBERTON, in _The London Daily Mail_. "Full of wit and humor and real philosophy which rank their possessor among those humorists who have really made a genuine contribution to permanent literature."--HARRY THURSTON PECK, in _The Bookman_. "His eloquence is a torrent, and his satire as strong and stinging as a slave-driver's whip."--_Pall Mall Gazette_. Green cloth, decorative, 7 x 4-1/2 in. =$1.25= * * * =MR. DOOLEY: IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN (35th thousand)= "The depression that could prevail against the influence of 'Mr. Dooley's' ebullient drollery, gay wisdom, and rich brogue would be profound indeed, and its victim would be an altogether hopeless case."--_The London World._ "His new book shows no falling off: his wit is as nimble as ever, his eye as quick to note incongruities, his satire as well directed and as brilliant."--_The Academy_, London. "'Mr. Dooley' improves on acquaintance. His creator is a real and rare humorist."--_The Bookman._ Blue cloth, decorative, 7 x 4-1/2 in. =$1.25= * * * * * BY GELETT BURGESS. =VIVETTE. Or, the Memoirs of the Romance Association.= Setting forth the diverting Adventures of one Richard Redforth in the very pleasant City of Millamours; how he took Service in the Association; how he met and wooed the gay Vivette; how they sped their Honeymoon and played the Town; how they spread a mad Banquet; of them that came thereto, and the Tales they told; of the Exploits of the principal Characters, and especially of the Disappea
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