OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
ON THE
FIRST EDITION.
St. James's Gazette.—"One of the lightest and brightest writers of vers de société."
Saturday Review.—"Mr. J. Ashby-Sterry is a facile and agreeable versifier, with a genuine gift of expression, a light and dexterous touch, and a grace that is really individual."
The World.—"Sweet and musical. His musical melodies are set in an appropriately dainty shrine."
Daily Telegraph.—"'The Lazy Minstrel' commends itself both by outward form and inward merit to the lover of choice and dainty literature."
Daily News.—"Mr. Ashby-Sterry is a merry bard. He very seldom brings 'the eternal note of sadness in.'"
Punch.—"The first edition of his 'Lays' went off with a bang that must have astonished His Laziness."
G. A. S. in the Illustrated London News.—"Emphatically 'nice' in the nicest—the old-fashioned sense of the word.... A delicate little tome.... Graceful and, on occasion, tender."
The Globe.—"The bard not only of the lazy but the leisured.... Mr. Ashby-Sterry is a humourist, too, who sees the ludicrous as well as the pleasant side of life, and describes it with much gusto.... There is as much variety in his rhythms as there is ingenuity in his rhymes."
The Queen.—"One of the most facile writers of light and pleasant rhyme."