Vanity Fair.—“Most certainly entertaining, and readers will enjoy it. It is well illustrated.”

Scotsman.—“A lively book of comical yarns. It is frivolous, doubtless, but it is funny, and any reader will like it who enjoys a hearty laugh.”

Outlook.—“The stories are well told, and tend to provoke laughter.”

Phoenix.—“A delightful collection of stories. There is something refreshing and invigorating about them.”

Literary World.—“An amusing bit of humour.”

Midland Mail.—“A budget of fun, and good fun too. There is not a dull page in it.”

Sheffield Daily Telegraph.—“Anyone who wants a good laugh should get ‘The Pottle Papers.’ They are very droll reading for an idle afternoon, or picking up at any time when ‘down in the dumps.’ They are very brief and very bright, and it is impossible for anyone with the slightest sense of humour to read the book without bursting into ‘the loud guffaw’ which does not always ‘bespeak the empty mind.’”

Pall Mall Gazette.—“It contains plenty of boisterous humour of the Max Adeler kind … humour that is genuine and spontaneous. The author, for all his antics, has a good deal more in him than the average buffoon. There is, for example, a very clever and subtle strain of feeling running through the comedy in ‘The Love that Burned’—a rather striking bit of work. Mr Raven Hill’s illustrations are as amusing as they always are.”

DAN LENO, HYS BOOKE, is, says the Liverpool Review, “the funniest publication since ‘Three Men in a Boat.’ In this autobiographical masterpiece the inimitable King of Comedians tells his life story in a style that would make a shrimp laugh.”

This enormously successful book of genuine and spontaneous humour has been received with a complete chorus of complimentary criticisms and pleasing “Press” praise and approval. Here are a few reviewers’ remarks:—

Scotsman.—“Bombshells of fun.”

Lloyd’s.—“One long laugh from start to finish.”

Globe.—“Full of exuberant and harmless fun.”

English Illustrated Magazine.—“A deliciously humorous volume.”

Catholic Times.—“The fun is fast and furious.”

St Paul’s.—“It is very funny.”

These are a few opinions taken at random from hundreds of notices.

Says the Daily News (Hull):—“The funniest book we have read for some time. You must perforce scream with huge delight at the dry sayings and writings of the funny little man who has actually killed people with his patter and his antics. Page after page of genuine fun is reeled off by the great little man.”

St James’s Gazette.—“Distinctly clever.”

Globe.—“Mr Spurr goes in for humour, and with very considerable success.… Altogether he is as funny as he is fluent. Mr Hassall’s illustrations are also genuinely comic.”

Nottingham Guardian.—“The fun is genuine and hearty.”

Weekly Sun.—“These ‘Bachelor Ballads’ are excellent fun.”

Literary World.—“The book is good from beginning to end, and its excellent illustrations by John Hassall are fittingly humorous.”

Sheffield Independent.—“It is a rare thing to find humour in rhyme without vulgarity, and fun without feebleness. One is, as a rule, inclined to laugh too rarely with the joking poet, and sigh often at the pity of his hideous staleness. Mr Spurr is the exception. His unostentatious rhymes abound in neat literary turns, brim with good humour, and jig to a natural sprightliness. He can pass, too, the test of persistent punning without causing the gorge of the reader to rise. In brief, he is a really humorous versifier, and the illustrator of his work has happily caught his spirit. A man who can turn out in thirty-two lines twenty-five puns on cricket, and work in a love story too, may be regarded as having shouldered the mantle of Hood.”