"In addition to the charming incidents related, it fairly sparkles with fresh and original thoughts which cannot fail to interest and profit."
GOOD LITERATURE, New York:
"... Never fails to amuse and interest, and it is one of the pleasantest features of the book that one may open it at a venture and be sure of finding something original and readable."
HERALD AND PRESBYTER, Cincinnati, Ohio:
"His manner of telling the story of his varied observations and experiences, with his reflections accompanying, is so easy and familiar, as to lend his pages a fascination which renders it almost impossible to lay down the book until it is read to the end."
NEW YORK LEDGER:
"It is quite out of the usual method of books of travel, and will be relished all the more by those who enjoy bits of quiet humor and piquant sketches of men and things on a yachting journey."
NEW YORK STAR:
"Not too profound for entertainment, and yet pleasantly suggestive. A volume of clever sayings."
CHRISTIAN SECRETARY, Hartford, Conn.: