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As pictures of human life in a great city, these ten stories are simply unique.—Newark Advertiser.
New York has a new meaning to his readers, as London has a new meaning to the reader of Dickens.—N.Y. Commercial Advertiser.
Mr. Davis is a writer of unquestioned genius. His sketches of city life in the poorer districts have a force which makes them exceptionally vivid and inspiring.—Albany Express.
Ten remarkable newspaper and magazine stories. They will make capital winter reading, and the book is one that will find a welcome everywhere.—N.Y. Journal of Commerce.
The freshness, the strength, and the vivid picturesqueness of the stories are indisputable, and their originality and their marked distinction are no less decided.—Boston Saturday Gazette.
His figures stand forth clear cut, and marvellously truthful and lifelike. Their wholesome tone is in grateful contrast to the false and exaggerated note so often struck by young authors,—Philadelphia Ledger.