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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

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WQR 19 FEB 3g

TO

CHARLES F. BRIGGS,

THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY

INSCRIBED.

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

A

FABLE FOR
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;

A VOCAL AND MUSICAL MEDLEY,

THAT IS,

A SERIES OF JOKES

By A Wonderful Quiz,

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 31st day,
In the year '48, G. P. Putnam, Broadway.

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