"What Mr. Brooks has thus gleaned has a noteworthy interest, not only as
offering a fund of amusement to young and old, but as having a certain
value to the student of New-England history, and an instructiveness for
the general reader."--_Boston Advertiser._

"A treat of good things out of the past. While not professing to be
history, they will contain much material for history."--_Literary
World._

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LITERARY CURIOSITIES

_Newspapers will ultimately engross all literature._--LAMARTINE.

_The careful reader of a few good newspapers can learn more in a year
than most scholars do in their great libraries._--F.B. SANBORN.