"Mr. Neil Lyons writes as the friend and observer of the New Army; ... is a master of cockney humour.... There are other soldiers in his book, but those who talk cockney are the most delightful.... As to nearly everything that Mr. Lyons' cockneys say, we have an instinctive feeling that it is exactly right."—Times.
"There is no writer of our day who is so free from prejudice as Mr. Neil Lyons, or puts down on paper so fearlessly the actual dialogue of our streets.... Here, you will say, is the very man to take down the talk of the humbler members of Lord Kitchener's Armies. And you will be right. You will laugh heartily over 'Kitchener Chaps.'"—Sunday Times.
"Mr. Neil Lyons' sketches of the recruits in the new army are splendid, humorous and human pen-pictures, almost the first genuine literature that the war has produced.
"One of the sketches, 'Old Nitch,' is a superb little masterpiece, but they are all very, very good."—Daily Express.
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"Very pretty comedy ... not only a very entertaining and amusing work, but a very kindly and tolerant work also. At the back of it is understanding and love of life, and that most admirable frame of mind for an artist, the live-and-let-live temperament."—Times.
"'Arthur's' can cordially be recommended.... Mr. Lyons seems to have the animating gift as well as the seeing eye, and a kindly humour in selection and treatment brings out the light and warmth of the stall rather than its flare and smell."—Manchester Guardian.
CLARA