Part 18

“A volume most welcome on table or desk, Is Davenport Adams’ ‘Book of Burlesque,’ There’s fun at your asking, wherever you look, And not a dull page, you’ll declare, in the book.”—Punc

GREAT SUCCESS.

THE BOOK OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON.

FIFTH EDITION. NOW READY.

THE BACHELORS’ CLUB.

By I. ZANGWILL.

Crown 8vo. 348 pp. 3s. 6d.

With ILLUSTRATIONS by GEORGE HUTCHINSON.

BRIEF EXTRACTS FROM FIRST PRESS NOTICES.

ST. JAMES’S GAZETTE: “Some exceedingly clever fooling, and a happy audacity of whimsical invention.”

DAILY GRAPHIC: “A genuine humourist. We own to having laughed heartily, and appreciated the cleverness and the cynicism.”

STAR: “Mr. Zangwill has an original way of being funny. He is full of clever and witty, paradoxical and epigrammatical, surprises. His book is a splendid tonic for gloomy spirits.”

EVENING NEWS: “Not one in a score of the amusing books which come from the press is nearly so amusing as this.”

SUNDAY TIMES: “Read, laugh over, and profit by the history of ‘The Bachelors’ Club,’ capitally told by a fresh young writer.”

GLOBE: “A clever and interesting book. Agreeable satire. Store of epigram.”

REFEREE: “A new comic writer. There is a touch of the devilry of Heine in Mr. Zangwill’s wit.”

SCOTSMAN: “Any one who has listened to what the wild waves say as they beat the shores of Bohemia will read the book with enjoyment and appreciate its careless merriment.”

FREEMAN’S JOURNAL: “Very clever and amusing; highly interesting, humorous and instructive.”

PICTORIAL WORLD: “One of the smartest books of the season. Brimful of funny ideas, comically expressed.”

MAN OF THE WORLD: “Witty to excess. To gentlemen who dine out, the book will furnish a stock of ‘good things’ upon every conceivable subject of conversation.”

GRANTA: “A book of genuine humour. Full of amusing things. The style is fresh and original.”

NEWCASTLE DAILY CHRONICLE: “Really clever and amusing; brimful of genuine humour and fun.”

YORKSHIRE HERALD: “A quaint, fresh, delightful piece of humour. Hood or Douglas Jerrold might have written the book.”

NORTHERN DAILY NEWS: “The reader must be very dyspeptic who cannot laugh consumedly at his funny conceits.”

SPORTING TIMES: “No end of fun. Not a dull line in the book.”

PELICAN: “He who holds in his hands the passport to such a region of fun may snap his hands for a little at fate.”

JUDY: “It’s Zangwillian, which is saying a very great deal indeed in its favour.”

ARIEL: “The cleverest book ever written” (Author’s own review).