With Twenty-one Illustrations by Augustus Hoppin.
1 vol. Small quarto. $2.00.
This delightful volume has been greeted with remarkable unanimity as one of the wittiest, freshest, most wholesome books in American literature. The humorous genius which irradiated Mr. Warner’s previous volumes, “My Summer in a Garden,” and “Saunterings,” pervades these “Backlog Studies” and lends them an indescribable charm.
New York Christian Advocate.
One of the finest books of quaint conceit, quiet humor, and delicate sentiment we have read for a long time.... If a richer book in its own sphere has been written by an American author, we are not familiar with it, and this we say despite the genial author’s rebuke of criticism by comparison. From its opening page to its close there is not a dry one in it, and some of its hits at popular fallacies and stubborn dogmas are keen and incisive; while at the same time the delightful humor and kindly spirit which accompany the lancet, make it impossible for one to take offence, be his pet notions ever so much ridiculed.
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Who shall say that books have no souls, especially books like this, all aglow with healthful humor, bright thought, and talking right out to you what you were about yourself to say,—only you had not quite thought it yet? A few of these ‘Studies’ have appeared in “Scribners,” but the most are new, while all are fresh and sparkling as a frosty winter morning, and delicious as the company we love for a winter evening. The book is more deeply thoughtful than “My Summer in a Garden,” with an equally vivid play of fancy.