"This is a remarkable book. It is a collection of short stories on East End life, but they are told with that real realism of observation of which Mr Morrison has set the fashion. The setting is real, the slang is real, the manners and customs seem to have been drawn from life."—The Daily News.
"It does not need any actual experience of East End life to tell the reader of these 'East End Idylls' that they are the work of a master-hand.... The little idylls are all exquisitely done—exquisitely, we say, because there is no other word which will do full justice to the performance."—The Sun.
"Very vivid sketches of the East End as it is to-day. In the intimacy they display with life in the slums, and in the terseness and force of their style, they boldly challenge comparison with 'Tales of Mean Streets,' nor do they lose by the comparison. Mr Adcock's themes are less gloomy and hopeless than Mr Morrison's. Amid all the misery he loves to recount deeds of unselfish devotion and simple heroism; nor do I believe that he is less true to life because his realism is less grim."—The Pall Mall Gazette.
"Distinctly a book worth reading. There is heroism here, and knowledge—true insight, in fact—and sympathy."—The Leeds Mercury.
"A series of touching and delightful sketches. Much has been written of the East End, but rarely with more charm or sympathy than by Mr Adcock."—The Star.
"Mr Adcock possesses a graphic pen, and has sketched the loves and hates, the joys and the sorrows of the dwellers in London's mighty East in a series of short, vigorous stories that make up a very delightful volume."—Lloyd's Newspaper.
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