"One of the most simple, naive and straightforward books ever written. It fairly reeks with personality.... No man living has had such interesting association with so many interesting people."—Home Journal.
"Adorned by many pictures, never before published."—Detroit Journal.
"Possesses unparalleled attractions."—Boston Journal.
"Major Pond goes deep into his subject, furnishing pen-portraits that are admirably clear and graphic."—The Mail and Express.
"The whole book, stuffed as it is with anecdotes and extracts from personal letters, is marvelously interesting."—Boston Transcript.
"All the world loves a teller of stories, and readers will surely take approvingly to the man who gives them so much of entertaining reading as is found in Major Pond's 600 pages of bright personal description."—N. Y. Times.
"Shining by reflected light, its pages literally teem with interesting anecdotes of many sorts."—Chicago Evening Post.
"Originality stamps the volume, copiously illustrated with portraits."—The Boston Globe.
"It has a thousand charms, and a thousand points of interest. It is full of striking gems of thought, rare descriptions of men and places, biographical bits that delight one by their variety, and the distinction of those alluded to. From a literary view it is as interesting as Disraeli's famous "Curiosities of Literature."—Philadelphia Item.
"If any more charming and interesting book has appeared this season, it has not come to our notice. The get-up is worthy of the matter of the book."—Philadelphia Evening Telegraph.