Weekly Sun.—“These ‘Bachelor Ballads’ are excellent fun.”
Literary World.—“The book is good from beginning to end, and its excellent illustrations by John Hassall are fittingly humorous.”
Sheffield Independent.—“It is a rare thing to find humour in rhyme without vulgarity, and fun without feebleness. One is, as a rule, inclined to laugh too rarely with the joking poet, and sigh often at the pity of his hideous staleness. Mr Spurr is the exception. His unostentatious rhymes abound in neat literary turns, brim with good humour, and jig to a natural sprightliness. He can pass, too, the test of persistent punning without causing the gorge of the reader to rise. In brief, he is a really humorous versifier, and the illustrator of his work has happily caught his spirit. A man who can turn out in thirty-two lines twenty-five puns on cricket, and work in a love story too, may be regarded as having shouldered the mantle of Hood.”
That Fascinating Widow. By S. J. A. Fitz-Gerald. Cloth, 1s. (For particulars [see page 26].)
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London. A Handy Guide for the Visitor, Sportsman and Naturalist. By J. W. Cundall. Numerous Illustrations. Fourth Year of Publication. Long 12mo, cloth, 6d.
Vanity Fair.—“A capital little guide book. No bulky volume this, but a handy booklet full of pithy information on all the most important subjects connected with our great city.”
Outlook.—“A handy booklet, more tasteful than one is accustomed to.”
Pelican.—“As full of useful and entertaining information as is an egg of meat.”