Company Publication: San Francisco and New York: Western Authors Publishing Steve 250-479-8348 (landline) Check your junk mail if no reply or phone and leave your number . Cheers . A volume of satirical verses and sketches collected from Bierce''s journalism. A reviewer for the Californian Illustrated Magazine observed that the "black beetles are prominent citizens of California - public men, lawyers, judges, journalists, social leaders, and clubmen - whom Mr. Bierce has first impaled on the needle of satire and then embalmed in the amber of his poetic fancy. This he has done as a whole cleverly, sometimes very excellently. He has his own ideas as to the propriety of his work, and frankly says that he makes no apologies either for its production or preservation." Frontispiece portrait by J.H.E. Parlington