“The book is rather one for a naturalist’s library than for general reading, yet there are many passages of character and travel which no reader could fail to appreciate.”
+ Acad. 69: 1134. O. 28, ’05. 510w. + Ath. 1906, 1: 235. F. 24. 1350w.
Reviewed by H. E. Coblentz.
+ – Dial. 40: 363. Je. 1, ’06. 300w.
“There are some instructive notes on the habits both of birds and men, for all of which one is grateful, wishing only that there had been more of this wheat and less of the journalistic chaff.”
+ – Nature. 73: 50. N. 16, ’05. 980w. + – Spec. 95: sup. 909. D. 2, ’05. 430w.
Brown, Marshall, ed. Humor of bulls and blunders. **$1.20. Small.
A book of fun primarily designed to amuse, and negatively to suggest the importance of clear expression and simplicity of style. There are educational, parliamentary, political, and typographical bulls and blunders, there are humorous arraignments of advertisements, epitaphs, and letters, and there is comedy in careless sentence structure, punctuation and wrong use of words.
“A merry book, a book full of mirth-provoking passages. He seems to have captured everything in his line.”