"Comic Arithmetic is the best work ever issued from the press; it is not only multum in parvo, but a rara avis in terra—a splendid ebullition of wit; and the diamond gems of humour which lie in its depths, sparkle with merriment as the stream of the Author's feelings glitters over it, rendering the sensations intense, heart-thrilling, and side-shaking."—Defunct Gazette.
"Comic Arithmetic.—If we wonder that the human mind could have conceived such a project, what must be our astonishment to find all its beatific visions realized, in such abundant corruscations of wit and drollery, which irradiate every page! It is equal in intellectual splendour to that mental Claude's, Robert Montflummery's poem, "The Last of the Gewgaws," and resembles Vauxhall on a gala night, or the illuminations of St. Peter at the Zollicogical Gardens."—Imaginary Review.
"Comic Arithmetic is a specific for the doldrums and a cure for the heart-ache; has been known to perform a perfect cure on dyspeptic patients at a single sitting; it is an anodyne for the gout, an assuager of rheumatism; it may be called an electrical merry-thought, or the galvanism of witticism; which, by convulsing with laughter, would shake out a legion of blue devils in the twinkling of a bed-post."—Embryo Magazine.
VALETE AC PLAUDITE.
THE WORLD IS KEPT UP BY PUFF.
R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL, LONDON.