MR. GEORGE ALEXANDER writes: ‘Four volumes make a perfect press for trousers.’


THE RIGHT HON. JESSE COLLINGS, M.P., writes: ‘I have been so exhilarated by the perusal of your fascinating miscellany that I think of re-entering the political arena with a new battle-cry: “Three acres and a Supplement.”’


LUCAS MALET (Mrs. Harrison) writes: ‘I omitted to mention it in my work, and now feel it my duty to Mr. Stephen Gwynn and my vast circle of readers to state that one of the few things that kept poor Sir Richard Calmady bright in a world of phantoms and futilities was the certainty that he could never drop one of your monumental volumes on his toe.’


LORD ’IVEBURY writes: ‘... Your splendid article on Bee-mæterlism....’


MRS. CARRIE NATION writes: ‘I don’t know how my campaign against the liquor saloons would ever have succeeded but for your timely publication. There is no plate glass that can stand against one of your tomes. You should see vol. xxvii. bringing down a row of rye whisky bottles! It’s great.’