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if ¦ if 67 fr The Publishers' Circular August i , issj I
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'As wise as it is witty . '—Standard . ONE OF ' US . ' A NOVEL . DBy EDMTTISTD DR ^ JSTDOIjIPH :, LATE 69 th REGIMENT . 3 vols . 31 s . 6 d . From the STANDARD , July 27 , 1882 . c We hardly know what else he could have called it , though it is as little like a novel , in the ordinary acceptation of the word , as it well can be . What is it like ? Nothing but itself ; and that is delightful . We should say that reading it was like taking laughing gas more than anything else . Comic books are almost as odious as comic songs . Books which proclaim on their title-pages the high animal spirits of their authors are a weariness to the flesh . 3 Ir . Randolph makes no professions of high spirits . We should think he was the last man in the world to grin through a horse-collar . He is as spontaneously funny as a nightingale is spontaneously ' musical . He compels laughter as Malibran compelled tears . You cannot stop to consider whether his jokes are good or bad ; you only know that your sides are sore with laughing at them . And the laughter is honest and wholesome . It is never like the crackling of thorns under a pot . This is not a book to quote from ; it is a book to read . It should be read , by preference , in what our grandfathers called the closet . If you read it in a railway carriage your fellow-passengers will probably whisper to the guard at the next station / London : SAMPSON LOW , MARSTON , SEARLE , & RIVINGTOF , L Crown Buildings , 188 Fleet Street . ^!! l- ~ -Jm-^ ¦ ^ - -
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Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Aug. 1, 1882, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_01081882/page/26/
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