“These cruises, largely by sailors, but of the land or at the most, of the port, are in the author’s familiarly amusing vein.... The practical joke, the admonition by craft, the object lesson through wile have their perfect work in these pages. If the fun possibly makes especial appeal to masculine readers, feminine ones should observe that it is always the woman who gets the best of it.”—Nation.
“This volume is fit to stand on the shelf beside ‘Many cargoes’ and ‘Sea urchins.’”
| + + | Acad. 73: 873. S. 7, ’07. 210w. | |
| A. L. A. Bkl. 3: 178. O. ’07. |
“To be frank, the sailormen we meet with in these pages—at all events, where they are deepwater sailormen—are not in the least the real thing; but they are much more amusing than the real thing is wont to be, and so we welcome their appearance.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 1: 789. Je. 29. 1170w. |
“There are, we regret to say, signs in his latest book that Mr. Jacobs is tiring. He is still funny, but he has receded further from life.”
| − | Lond. Times. 6: 149. My. 10, ’07. 300w. |
“His invention is varied, his humour on his chosen lines of cartoon and caricature, boundless, and his mastery supreme of what in respectful homage we venture to term slanguage.”
| + | Nation. 84: 501. My. 30, ’07. 90w. | |
| + | Outlook. 86: 340. Je. 15, ’07. 60w. |