Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1913 — PRETTY NAMES FOR BOOKS [ARTICLE]

PRETTY NAMES FOR BOOKS

Real Old-Time Tltlee Sound Decidedly Strange to. the Eye of the Reader Today. The following are some of the curious titles of old English boqks: “A Most Delectably Sweet Perfumed Nosegay for God’s Saints to Smell At." "Biscuit Baked in the Oven of Charity. Carefully Conserved for the Chickens of the Church, the Sparrows of the Spirit, and the Sweet Swallows of Salvation.” “A Sigh of Sorrow for the of Zion Breathed Out of a Hole in the Wall df an Earthly Vessel Known Among Men by the Name of Samuel Fish” (a Quaker who had been imprisoned). “Eggs of Charity Layed for the Chickens of the Covenant and Boiled With the Water of Divine Love. Take Ye Out and Eat." . “The Spiritual Mustard Pot to Make the Soul Sneeze With Devotion.” Most of these were published In the time o V Cromwell.—London Strand.