“For interesting as this story is—and it must be confessed that it goes with a good swing—it will not bear reading a second time, and the author has a command of workmanship that we feel sure is wasted on such unlikely happenings.”
| + − | Acad. 71: 400. O. 20, ’06. 140w. |
“If one can get over the irritation caused by a small boy who is allowed to go anywhere and do anything—indeed, encouraged by adults to act as a man—the series of adventures here presented will be found entertaining.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 543. N. 3. 80w. |
“It is astonishing how ingenious Mr. Jepson has been in giving both adventures and conversation a turn so refreshingly original and whimsical, and, in a way, so human, that it is impossible not to feel at the end (unless you are one of the serious) that this playfulness is of the identical sort which prevents Jack—in knickerbockers or a full beard—from becoming a hopelessly dull boy.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 11: 673. O. 13, ’06. 560w. |
“Mr. Jepson’s playful vein is refreshing. The novelist’s responsibility rests very lightly on his shoulders; he simply shares with the reader his own enjoyment of his original and impossible little hero.”
| + | Outlook. 84: 796. N. 24, ’06. 50w. |
Jermain, Mrs. Frances D. [In the path of the alphabet: an historical account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet.] $1.25. W. D. Page, Fort Wayne, Ind.
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