latter's articles. I do not know how you can print its 300
pages for 25 cents."

_AMERICAN_, Philadelphia:

"Mr. Williams' work is a practical compendium."

III.

The American Humorist.

_COMMERCIAL GAZETTE_, Cincinnati, Ohio:

"It is finely critical and appreciative; exceedingly crisp and
unusually entertaining from first to last."

_CHRISTIAN INTELLIGENCER_, New York:

"A book of pleasant reading, with enough sparkle in it to cure any one
of the blues."

_CONGREGATIONALIST_, Boston:

"They are based upon considerable study of these authors, are highly
appreciative in tone, and show a perceptivity of American humor which
is yet a rarity among Englishmen."

_SALEM TIMES_, Mass.:

"No writer in England was, in all respects, better qualified to write
a book on American Humorists than Haweis."

_CHRISTIAN JOURNAL_, Toronto:

"We have been specially amused with the chapter on poor Artemus Ward,
which we read on a railway journey. We fear our fellow-passengers
would think something ailed us, for laugh we did, in spite of all
attempts to preserve a sedate appearance."

_OCCIDENT_, San Francisco:

"This book is pleasant reading, with sparkle enough in it--as the
writer is himself a wit--to cure one of the 'blues.'"

_DANBURY NEWS_, Conn.:

"Mr. Haweis gives a brief bibliographical sketch of each writer
mentioned in the book, an analysis of his style, and classifies each
into a distinct type from the others. He presents copious extracts
from their works, making an entertaining book."

_CENTRAL BAPTIST_, St. Louis:

"A perusal of this volume will give the reader a more correct idea of
the character discussed than he would probably get from reading their
biographies. The lecture is analytical, penetrative, terse, incisive,
and candid. The book is worth its price, and will amply repay
reading."

_SCHOOL JOURNAL_, New York:

"Terse and brief as the soul of wit itself."

_INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL_, Indiana:

"It presents, in fine setting, the wit and wisdom of Washington
Irving, Oliver W. Holmes, James R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, Mark Twain,
and Bret Harte, and does it _con amore_."

_THE MAIL_, Toronto, Ont.:

"Rev. H. R. Haweis is a writer too well-known to need commendation at
our hands for, at least, his literary style. The general result is
that not a page repels us and not a sentence tires. We find ourselves
drawn pleasantly along in just the way we want to go; all our favorite
points rememb