“An entertaining, breezy story.”
+ Critic. 48: 92. Ja. ’06. 140w.
Phillips, Henry Wallace. [Mr. Scraggs]: introduced by “Red Saunders.” †$1.25. Grafton press.
Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs is introduced by his friend Red Saunders. The incidents in his strenuous matrimonial career—eighteen marriages all told—are recounted with a humor that “has a suggestion of the slapstick, but like the slapstick it never fails to get a hand, and mixed with it now and then a little genuine wit and more than a little shrewd, practical frontier wisdom.” (Pub. Opin.)
“The stories are by no means dull and if they were not so obviously intended to be funny, if our smiles were not literally held up and challenged on every page, they could be read with real enjoyment.” Mary K. Ford.
+ – Bookm. 23: 197. Ap. ’06. 520w.
“There are seven stories in the book, and it would be hard to decide which is the funniest. The tales are not nearly as funny as the man who tells them, and his way of telling them.”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 62. F. 3, ’06. 740w. + N. Y. Times. 11: 383. Je. 16, ’06. 90w.
“It cannot be denied that the travesty is lively and entertaining in a high degree.”