BILL 



AND 



BOOMERANG 



By BILL NYE. 

 12mo. Cloth and Paper Covers. 



"In hoc usufruct nux vomica est" VIBGIL. 



This book deals largely with the singular scenery and peculiar people of *,he 

 Rocky Mountains. It touches gently upon the Heathen Chinee, the gorgeous 

 sunsets, the glad, free life of the miner, the ineek-eyed but deadly mule, the 

 docile and timid red man, the abnormally connubial Mormon, and the mellow 

 days of the long ago, when the song of the six-shooter was heard in the land. 



The book is ostensibly truthful, and the language is chaste and picturesque. 



It is not a work after the style of Herbert Spencer exactly, and yet there is 

 the same gentle sense of creamy, soothing, languid, mysterious incandescence; 

 the same opaque, unfathomable and breezy suggestion of unreliability, together 

 with the general, logical and rhatorical effect of grosgrain perspicuity and im- 

 ported delirium, tremens which characterize the works of Spencer; still the 

 reader will have no soul-destroying perplexity in distinguishing the features of 

 difference between these two great men. 



It is merry, hilarious and rolicksome, and yet there is a vague suggestion of 

 sadness in the mind of the reader when he gets through perhaps a sense of 

 impending evil, and a feeling of insecurity because the author is still at large 

 and no effort is being made by the authorities to bring him to justice. Yet it will 

 do an untold amount of good, for it will supersede the liver pad and porous 

 plaster as a health promoter, while at the same time it will go squirting and 

 squizzJing its eternal truths and sunny little prevarications upon the broad 

 highways of life like an intellectual street sprinkler; and times will improve, 

 and the universal prosperity for centuries to come will be traced back to the 

 day this work was turned loose upon the people. 



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BELFORD, CLARKE & CO., 



PUBLISHERS, 



CHICAGO 



