“He is able to analyse subjects that loom large in our public life and to illuminate the weak points in them with flashes of satire which are the more telling in that they are entirely good-natured.... The characters are deliciously conceived.”
—New York Evening Post.
“Crisp conversation and paragraphs jammed with American sarcasm of the gilt-edged variety.... Mr. Leacock penetrates the upper-class sham and satirizes it cheerfully. This is almost certain to generate little chuckles and long smiles from the intelligent proletarian who treats himself to these adventures.”
—Chicago Evening Post.
“Every one of the sketches is clever, humorous, but never unkind. An analytical gift of character reading is one of the salient attributes of Mr. Leacock’s style, and his present volume is one that will be seized with avidity and read with delight.”
—Buffalo Express.
“A master of keen, pointed satire, a lover of a good laugh, a writer capable of dexterously holding up to the light the foibles, weaknesses, craftiness and guile of his fellow man and woman, is this Stephen Leacock, and never before has he exemplified all this so patently, and withal so artfully, as in the present volume.”
—Cleveland Town Topics.
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