Wilder, Marshall Pinckney. Sunny side of the street. [**]$1.20. Funk.
Recollections of some 300 more or less well known people with whom the jester-author has come in contact. Three presidents, a king, and various great preachers, actors, politicians and soldiers contribute to the “garland of blossoms” plucked from “the gardens of humor and pathos” in the weaving of which the author modestly claims as his own merely “the string that binds them together.”
“Cannot fail to interest the many friends of the author. Mr. Wilder’s writing is on a par with his speaking.”
| + | Critic. 47: 475. N. ‘05. 50w. |
“The loquacity of the author, his well-known success in ‘getting around,’ his chatty tone, make a very cheerful book.”
| + + | Lit. D. 31: 188. Ag. 5, ‘05. 580w. |
“He tells many good stories. He nearly always lives up to his doctrine of amiability. We can recommend his book as cheerful reading.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 452. Jl. 8, ‘05. 360w. |
“The dense personal fog that surrounds this work casts diminutive shadows on the sunny side, and many of the anecdotes of which the book is composed savor of spice and antiquity.”
| — | Pub. Opin. 39: 383. S. 16, ‘05. 150w. | |
| R. of Rs. 32: 255. Ag. ‘05. 50w. |