Written by SAUL SMIFF.
The Pottle Papers.
Illustrated by L. RAVEN HILL.
Crown 8vo, art cloth, gilt top, 2s. 6d.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Pall Mall Gazette.—"Plenty of boisterous humour of the Max Adeler kind ... humour that is genuine and spontaneous. The author, for all his antics, has a good deal more in him than the average buffoon. There is, for example, a very clever and subtle strain of feeling running through the comedy in 'The Love that Burned'—a rather striking bit of work. Mr. Raven Hill's illustrations are as amusing as they always are."
Edinburgh News.—"Amid the light literature that is to the front at present there is nothing better than 'Pottle Papers.' It is very brisk indeed. The illustrations are capital."
Weekly Sun.—"The reader who takes this volume up is not likely to put it down until he has read every one of the sketches, and we can promise him he will be vastly diverted and entertained by every one of them."
Table Talk.—"The humour is essentially new and breezy.... The laughter they excite will be a sharp burst of 'laughter unquenchable.'"
Northern Figaro.—"Fortunately, 'The Pottle Papers' are things one can read and laugh at more than once without injury to either the reader or the papers. The author is a humorist of the first water, and his humour is not of the far-fetched or chestnutty order. The illustrations by Mr. Raven Hill, like all that artist's work on similar lines, are models of pen and ink humour."
Glasgow News.—"The author displays a genuine vis comica in his well got up and nicely printed chronicles of the various doings of the irrepressible Pottles.... A feature is the excellent illustrations by Raven Hill, whose fitness to wear the mantle of the late Chas. Keene becomes more apparent year by year."
Manchester Courier.—"A book full of funny fooling, and is admirably suited for the holiday season. The tedium of a railway journey will disappear as if by magic by a perusal of the marital affairs of Mr. and Mrs. Pottle. The book is pleasantly and cleverly illustrated by L. Raven Hill, and the frontispiece, entitled 'Mrs. Pottle's Cigar,' is an inspiration."
Sheffield Telegraph.—"Anyone who wants a good laugh should get 'The Pottle Papers.' They are very droll reading for an idle afternoon, or picking up at any time when 'down in the dumps.' They are very brief and very bright, and it is impossible for anyone with the slightest sense of humour to read the book without bursting into 'the loud guffaw' which does not always 'bespeak the empty mind.'"
At all Booksellers, Libraries, and Railway Bookstalls.