“A set of caricatures such as we have in Mr. Wright’s volume brings the surface of the age before us with a vividness that no prose writer, even of the highest power, could emulate. Macaulay’s most brilliant sentence is weak by the side of the little woodcut from Gillray, which gives us Burke and Fox.”—Saturday Review.
“A more amusing work of its kind was never issued.”—Art Journal.
“It is emphatically one of the liveliest of books, as also one of the most interesting. It has the twofold merit of being at once amusing and edifying.”—Morning Post.
Yankee Drolleries, Edited by G. A. Sala. Containing Artemus Ward’s Book; Biglow Papers; Orpheus C. Kerr; Jack Downing; and Nasby Papers. 700 pp., 3s. 6d.
More Yankee Drolleries. Containing Artemus Ward’s Travels; Hans Breitmann; Professor at Breakfast Table; Biglow Papers, Part II.; and Josh Billings; with Introduction by G. A. Sala. 700 pp., cloth, 3s. 6d.
A Third Supply of Yankee Drolleries. Containing Artemus Ward’s Fenians; Autocrat of Breakfast Table; Bret Harte’s Stories; Innocents Abroad; and New Pilgrim’s Progress; with an Introduction by G. A. Sala. 700 pp., cloth, 3s. 6d.