“A miscellaneous and highly amusing collection of literary curiosities.”—Bookseller.
“An amusing volume.... An account of a great many of those curious puzzles and tasks in which the literary mind delights.”—Teacher.
“A collection, a most exhaustive one, of the vagaries indulged in from remote ages down to the present day by literary triflers.”—Whitehall Review.
“A very entertaining little book.... Exceedingly interesting, and may be heartily recommended.”—Nottingham Guardian.
“A capital little book.... A cheap and neat volume which no editor or printer should be without.”—Printing Times and Lithograther.
“One of the most quaintly amusing books we have seen for a long time.”—Edinburgh Evening Express.
“For a man or woman endowed with literary tastes, and who, for want of regular work to do, sometimes longs for new methods of ‘killing time,’ this collection of frivolities and oddities might prove a fruitful source of amusement. Its author is a scholarly and well-read man; and in preparing this book he must have put himself to an infinitude of pains.”—Edinburgh Daily Review.
“The little volume is pleasantly and learnedly written.”—One and All.
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