HOT CORN, LIFE SCENES IN NEW YORK ILLUSTRATED.HOT CORN:
LIFE SCENES IN NEW YORK ILLUSTRATED.
INCLUDING
THE STORY OF LITTLE KATY,
MADALINA, THE RAG-PICKER'S DAUGHTER,
WILD MAGGIE, &c.
WITH ORIGINAL DESIGNS, ENGRAVED BY N. ORR.
BY SOLON ROBINSON.
Which comes to punish us."
"A beggar's book outworth's a noble's blood."
"Of every inordinate cup beware,
Or drink, and with it misery share."
NEW YORK:
DE WITT AND DAVENPORT, PUBLISHERS,
160 & 162 NASSAU STREET.
1854.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by
DE WITT & DAVENPORT,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York
W. H. TINSON, Stereotyper, &c.,
22 Spruce Street, New York.
R. CRAIGHEAD, PRINTER,
53 Vesey St, N. Y.
TO
HORACE GREELEY,
AND HIS CO-LABORERS,
EDITORS OF THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE;
The Friends of the Working Man; The Advocates of
Lifting up poor trodden-down Humanity; The Ardent Supporters of, and Earnest
Advocates for the Maine Law;
The Wishers for Better Rewards for Woman's Labor,
And All Honest Industry,
This Volume is
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
BY YOUR FRIEND AND FELLOW WORKER,
THE AUTHOR.
INTRODUCTION.
The growing taste for works of this kind—works intendedto promote temperance and virtue, to lift up the lowly, toexpose to open day the hidden effects produced by Rum, togive narratives of misery suffered by the poor in this city—hasinduced the Publishers to offer liberal inducements tothe author to use his powerful pen, and words of fire, todepict his "Life Scenes," and embody them in a volume,which, we are satisfied, will prove one of the most acceptableto the moral portion of the community, ever published. Itis a work of high tone, that must do good. The peculiarstyle of the author is as original as the tales of truth whichhe narrates. It is unlike that of any other author, andevery page is full of fresh interest and thrilling narrative.
As a temperance tale, it has no equal. As such, we hopeit may prove but the commencement of a series. As anexposé of life among the poor in this city, it will be readwith deep and abiding interest, in all parts of this country.It is a work for the fireside of every family; a book thatcommends itself to the heart.
No one who has read the "Hot Corn Stories," as theyappeared in the Tribune, but will rejoice to have the opportunityto possess them, and many more like them, all completeand connected, in one handsome volume, such as wenow offer.
To a moral and religious public; to all who would promote...