“Mr. Hope is a scholar, and his wide knowledge and culture give his books a cache of their own.”—Journal of Education.
“We like Mr. Hope’s stories. They are fresh and healthy and vigorous. They can inspire no evil thought; they must encourage to good efforts; they are never dull; they are always amusing. A volume of stories of which this can be truthfully said needs no further commendation.”—Scotsman.
“If we must choose one story as being particularly good, it will be ‘Victor’s Pony.’ It is very clever and dramatic.”—Saturday Review.
“There is an old saying, that we must not tell tales out of school, but no schoolboy will quarrel with Mr. Ascott Hope for having broken the rule.”—Literary Churchman.
“No school library can be complete while Mr. Ascott Hope’s books are not in circulation.”—Derbyshire Mercury.
“The nine stories which make up this volume, without being of the too-goody sort, have one and all an instructive tendency which does not in the least diminish the interest both boys and girls will take in perusing them. Though these tales are more especially written for boys, not a few girls would read them with unmixed pleasure.”—British Mail.
“Excellent samples of what this ready writer can achieve. Not a story in this collection of nine drags or ends tediously. This is just the book for boys.”—Christian World.
“Mr. Hope thoroughly understands what kind of stories boys want, and what will please them. The various stories recounted in this new volume are all related in Mr. Hope’s inimitable way.”—Nonconformist.
☞ For Mr. Hope’s “Young Days of Authors,” see page 3.