"The humourous drawings are charming, and the figure subjects and decorative designs show great versatility and skill. Mr. Parkes has a wonderful way of introducing odd expressions, quaint conceits, and grotesque imagery. Many a hearty laugh will be got out of the Spook Ballads."—The Aberdeen Journal.
"The illustrations by the Author copiously strewn throughout the work are exceedingly clever, and are in themselves enough to commend the book, and will appeal to readers endowed with a particle of humour. Altogether the book is the kind to cheer the winter fireside or make the summer holiday slide joyously into autumn."—Kirkudbrightshire Advertiser.
"The pages abound in illustrations and marginal etchings, and these display rare artistic skill and a genuine spirit of comicality."—The Derry Journal.
"John M'Kune is racy of the soil, and rests on something stranger than fiction."—The Tyrone Constitution.
THE SPOOK BALLADS.
THE
SPOOK BALLADS
BY
WM. THEODORE PARKES