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Sunday Times.—"Very pungent and telling satire. Buy the book—it will give you a happy hour."
Standard.—"Under the beams of the moon of his delight, the author never fails to be amusing."
Pall Mall Gazette.—"Mr. Leacock's humour is a credit to Canada, for it has a depth and a polish such as are both rare in the literature of a young nation."
Land and Water.—"Unlike a number of so-called humorists, Mr. Leacock is really funny, as these sketches prove."
Field.—"Indeed a very pleasant hour can be spent with this author, who is full of humour, wit, and cleverness, and by his work adds much to the gaiety of life."
Spectator.—"Mr. Leacock has added to our indebtedness by his new budget of refreshing absurdities.... In shooting folly as it flies, he launches darts that find their billet on both sides of the Atlantic."
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Truth.—"Full of practical wisdom, as sober as it is sound."
Morning Post.—"He is the subtlest of all transatlantic humorists, and, as we have pointed out before, might almost be defined as the discoverer of a method combining English and American humour. But he never takes either his subject or himself too seriously, and the result is a book which is as readable as any of its mirthful predecessors."
World.—"Those readers who fail to find pleasure in this new volume of Essays will be difficult to please. Here are discourses in the author's happiest vein."
Daily News.—"All are delightful."
Bystander.—"No sane person will object to Professor Leacock professing, so long as he periodically issues such good entertainment as 'Essays and Literary Studies.'"
Daily Telegraph.—"The engaging talent of this Canadian author has hitherto been exercised in the lighter realm of wit and fancy. In his latest volume there is the same irresistible humour, the same delicate satire, the same joyous freshness; but the wisdom he distils is concerned more with realities of our changing age."
Outlook.—"Mr. Leacock's humour is his own, whimsical with the ease of a self-confident personality, far-sighted, quick-witted, and invariably humane."
Times.—"Professor Leacock's paper on American humour is quite the best that we know upon the subject."
Spectator.—"Those of us who are grateful to Mr. Leacock as an intrepid purveyor of wholesome food for laughter have not failed to recognize that he mingles shrewdness with levity—that he is, in short, wise as well as merry."
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Morning Post.—"An excellent antidote to war worry."
Evening Standard.—"You will acknowledge, if you have not done so before, the satirical keenness of Mr. Leacock."
Daily Graphic.—"The book is a joy all through, laughter on every page."
Times.—"Further examples of the diverting humour of Professor Leacock."
Bystander.—"'Further Foolishness,' in a word, is the most admirable tonic which I can prescribe to-day ... the jolliest possible medley."
Daily Chronicle.—"Mr. Leacock's fun is fine and delicate, full of quaint surprises; guaranteed to provoke cheerfulness in the dullest. He is a master-humorist, and this book is one of the cleverest examples of honest humour and witty satire ever produced."
Spectator.—"In this new budget of absurdities we are more than ever reminded of Mr. Leacock's essential affinity with Artemus Ward, in whose wildest extravagances there was nearly always a core of wholesome sanity, who was always on the side of the angels, and who was a true patriot as well as a great humorist."
Pall Mall Gazette.—"A humorist of high excellence."
Daily Express.—"Really clever and admirably good fun."
Star.—"Some day there will be a Leacock Club. Its members will all possess a sense of humour."
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"Everything in 'Frenzied Fiction' is exhilarating. Full of good things."—Morning Post.
"More delightful samples of Leacock humour. These delightful chapters show Mr. Leacock at his best."
Daily Graphic.
"Stephen Leacock has firmly established himself in public favour as one of our greatest humorists. His readers will be more than pleased with 'Frenzied Fiction.'"—Evening Standard.
"It is enough to say that Mr. Leacock retains an unimpaired command of his happy gift of disguising sanity in the garb of the ludicrous. There is always an ultimate core of shrewd common-sense in his burlesques."—Spectator.
"Full of mellow humour."—Daily Mail.
"From beginning to end the book is one long gurgle of delight."—World.
"If it is your first venture into the Leacockian world read that delicious parody 'My Revelations as a Spy,' and we will be sworn that before you've turned half a dozen pages you will have become a life-member of the Leacock Lodge."—Town Topics.
"When humour is such as you get in 'Frenzied Fiction' it is a very good thing indeed."—Sketch.
"There is always sufficient sense under Stephen Leacock's nonsense to enable one to read him at least twice."—Land and Water.
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"Equal in gay humour and deft satire to any of its predecessors, and no holiday will be so gay but this volume will make it gayer.... It is a book of rollicking good humour that will keep you chuckling long past summer-time."—Daily Chronicle.
"At his best, full of whims and oddities ... the most cheerful of humorists and the wisest of wayside philosophers."—Daily Telegraph.
"He has never provided finer food for quiet enjoyment ... his precious quality of Rabelaisian humanism has matured and broadened in its sympathy."—Globe.
"In the author's merriest mood. All of it is distilled wit and wisdom of the best brand, full of honest laughter, fun and frolic, comedy and criticism."—Daily Graphic.
"The book is inspired by that spirit of broad farce which runs glorious riot through nearly all that Stephen Leacock has written."—Bookman.
"He has all the energy and exuberance of the born humorist.... All admirers will recognize it as typical of Mr. Leacock's best work."—Manchester Guardian.
"An entertaining volume."—Scotsman.
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A discussion of the new social unrest, the transformation of society which it portends and the social catastrophe which it might precipitate.
The point of view taken by the author leads towards the conclusion that the safety of the future lies in a progressive movement of social control alleviating at least the misery it cannot obliterate, and based upon the broad general principle of equality of opportunity, and a fair start. The chief immediate opportunities for social betterment, as the writer sees them, lie in the attempt to give every human being in childhood, education and opportunity.
"His book is short, lucid, always to the point, and sometimes witty."—Times.
"A book for the times, suggestive, critical and highly stimulating. Mr. Leacock surveys the troubled hour and discusses the popular palliatives with a keen, unbiassed intelligence and splendid sympathy. I hope it will have as large a circulation as any of his humorous books, for it has much wisdom in it."—Daily Chronicle.
"The charm of Mr. Leacock's book is ... that it deals tersely and clearly with the problem of Social Justice without technical jargon or any abuse of generalities."—Morning Post.
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MA PETTENGILL
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Harry Leon Wilson is one of the first of American humorists, and in popularity he is a close rival of O. Henry. His "Ruggles of Red Gap," published at the beginning of the war, achieved a distinct success in England, while the raciness and vivacity of "Ma Pettengill" have furthered the author's reputation as an inimitable delineator of Western comedy. An English edition of this author's works is in course of preparation, of which the above are the first volumes.
"The author has the rare and precious gift of original humour."—Daily Graphic.
"Thackeray would have enjoyed Mr. Wilson's merry tale of 'Ruggles of Red Gap.' A very triumph of farce."—Sunday Times.
"Mr. Wilson is an American humorist of the first water. We have not for a long time seen anything so clever in its way and so outrageously funny."—Literary World.
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