"It is finely critical and appreciative; exceedingly crisp and unusually entertaining from first to last."
CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER, New York:
"A book of pleasant reading, with enough sparkle in it to cure any one of the blues."
CONGREGATIONALIST, Boston:
"They are based upon considerable study of these authors, are highly appreciative in tone, and show a perceptivity of American humor which is yet a rarity among Englishmen."
SALEM TIMES, Mass.:
"No writer in England was, in all respects, better qualified to write a book on American Humorists than Haweis."
CHRISTIAN JOURNAL, Toronto:
"We have been specially amused with the chapter on poor Artemus Ward, which we read on a railway journey. We fear our fellow-passengers would think something ailed us, for laugh we did, in spite of all attempts to preserve a sedate appearance."
OCCIDENT, San Francisco: