University of Virginia Library

“Delicious essays, full of good things as a pudding is full of plums,
always, as the author himself remarks of Dr. Holmes, `saying the same
things you wish you had said yourself'; always genial, humorous, feasting
eye and mind with intellectual fat things; it is a book among a
thousand, and one that should be in every family.”

“There is a vast amount of fine, witty moralizing in these papers,
flavored through and through with a generous and elevated sentiment.
Mr. Warner grows richer in his thought, and more choice in his expression,
the more he writes. His satire is healthful and corrective. His
wit is in the service of a noble purpose to make people better and happier.
This book, with its twenty-one illustrations by Hoppin, will find a
hearty welcome in many households.”

“A genial exponent of the best sort of American thought.”