"Meredith Nicholson has written nothing more charmingly fanciful or more filled with the spirit of the springtime than 'The Madness of May.'"​—St. Louis Republic.


By Meredith Nicholson

The Valley of Democracy

Illustrated by Walter Tittle

"It is a book which could have been written only by a Westerner; and it is a book for every American, Westerner and Easterner, Northerner and Southerner, to read, mark, ponder, and inwardly digest."​—New York Times.

"The book radiates the spirit that makes the West fascinating."​—Outlook.

"His chapters are set forth with that same easy facility in letters which has marked his works in fiction."​—New York World.

"A notably serious and thoughtful study of the American mind, character, and tendencies in the Middle West.... It is a book of fascinating interest and of the greatest possible civic and patriotic value."​—New York Tribune.

"Meredith Nicholson has done a great work in this masterly study of the Middle West. It is a national, nay, more, an international service which is performed in these illuminating pages, for in interpreting America to Americans the author is also interpreting America, or a very considerable section of it, to the world at large."​—San Francisco Chronicle.