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“I have often thought it a great pity that the sallies of humor, the entertaining or
amusing incidents, and the touches of tender pathos, that are so frequently to be met
with in the `Gossip' of the Knickerbocker, should be comparatively lost among the
multitudinous leaves of a magazine.”

“This will prove one of the pleasantest books of the season, with alternations of
healthful mirth and wholesome sadness. The Editor's Table of the Knickerbocker has
things quite too good to be forgotten, and it is well thought of to gather them and garner
them up in a volume.”

“A collection of the very cream of the good things which during nineteen years the
popular and experienced Editor of the Knickerbocker, Mr. L. Gaylord Clark, has so
bountifully and acceptably spread before his readers.”

“A repast of which thousands have partaken with zest, and found intellectual refreshment,
invigorating and delightful, therefrom. Mr. Clark's humor is quiet, soothing,
irresistible: it diffuses itself through your whole system, and, when you join him in his
benignant smile, a glow passes all over you. So with his pathos, it is not mawkish, nor
exaggerated, but `the real tear:' and leaves the reader—if our temperance friends will
not pervert our meaning—with a `drop in his eye' also.”

“A very epicurean feast of the richest and daintiest, culled with the most sedulous
care and nicest discrimination. It is a collection of luxuries such as was never before
made on American soil; and thousands, when they hear of it, will be ready to greet
their favorite purveyor with old Chaucer's irrepressible, Ah, benedicite! Ah, benedicite!'”

“The work will be hailed with satisfaction by every one who can appreciate the
genial humor, wit, and pathos, which have given such a zest to the Knickerbocker for
so many years.”

“The title is a very taking and happy one. It cannot fail to have a wide sale, and
become immensely popular; readable, quotable, and enjoyable, for all ages, sexes, and
conditions.”

“A most various and pleasant companion for the traveller abroad, or the stayer at
home.”

“We have often wished for just this very book, and we shall welcome it rejoicingly.”

“These `Knick-Knacks' are bound to have a run wherever Clark and the Knickerbocker
are known, which is everywhere this side of the Kaffirs and the New-Zealand
ers.”

“That will be a book for the million—for all capable of feeling and enjoying—who
can neither resist laughter nor forbid tears that will out, and must have vent, when the
secret strings of the heart are touched. `Old Knick' has many friends and admirers
who will thank him for this excellent idea. His `Knick-Knacks' will go off like hot
cakes. They are just the article the people most affect, and cannot fail to be popular
with all classes of readers.”

“To doubt the success of the `Knick-Knacks' would be about equal to doubting the
success of the Knickerbocker itself, which, happily, is one of the fixed literary facts of
American history.”

“Those who have enjoyed the `feast of fat things' spread before them monthly, in
the `Editor's Table' of `Old Knick,' need no artificial stimulus to create an appetite
for the `Knick-Knacks.'”

“If Clark does not print and sell 50,000 copies, `the fools are not all dead,
maintain a very decided majority among the `peoples.'”

We wish that every work of fiction we are called to notice was as admirable in its
as this, for there are few which we can so unhesitatingly put into the hands of a
young person. We gladly welcome any such addition to our lighter literature.”

“This is one of those attractive romances in which the purest passions of the heart
are delineated with a simplicity of style and an elevation of thought, that will charm
every reader. Love in its fulness and its richness, its delicacy and its fervor, is here
portrayed with a masterly hand.”

It abounds with the purest and deepest moral and pious sentiments interwoven with
scenes of every day life, in a manner that goes directly to the heart. It is a work of
which Americans may well be proud.”

“This is a pleasant, unpretending book, abounding with moral lessons, and written
with a moral purpose, exposing the many unthought of influences which operate upon
the character, and illustrating what it is that insures real happiness. The book is well
calculated to benefit young minds and young hearts.”

“This is a wholesome and refreshing novel—the dialogue is sprightly and sparklings
the moral good, and the interest of the work is well sustained. It can be recommended,
we think, to readers of all descriptions.”