Written in the approved modern Vers de Societie style, with a singular mixture of wit and deep feeling. Many of the verses would not be disowned by Praed, the master-genius of witty verse, or by Calverly, who wrote "Fly Leaves," a few years back.—Boston Advertiser.
Bret Harte created quite a sensation in London society by reading these verses in manuscript.—N. Y. Pub. Weekly.
The books contain some of the lightest and brightest bits of verse it has lately been our good fortune to lead.—The Critic.
Whence, What, Where?
A VIEW OF THE ORIGIN, NATURE, AND DESTINY OF MAN.
BY JAMES R. NICHOLS, M.D., A.M.
EXTRACTS FROM NOTICES BY THE PRESS.
From Forney's Philadelphia Press.
"Dr. Nichols' essays will be found stimulating reading. No one can take up the book without feeling the inclination to read further and to ponder on the all-important subjects which they present. Though it is not a religious book in the technical sense of the word, it is a book which calls for the exercise of the religious nature, and it is a book which in diffusing many sensible ideas will be good."