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¥ NEW YORK, Ihe Clitic : 



j^ " David Harum deserves to be known by all good 



"^ Americans ; he is one of them in boundless energy, in 



large-hearcedness, in shrewdness, and in humor." 



PHILADELPHIA, The Press: 



"A picture >o vivid, true, and irresistibly humorous 

 that we recognize at once the addition of a new figure 

 to the representative studies in American fiction." 



CLEVELAND, The World : 



" We have in the character of David Harum a per- 

 fectly clean and beautiful study, one of those true natures 

 that every one, man, woman, or child, is the better for 

 knowing." 



CHICAGO, 



The rrihune : 



" The book continues 

 to be talked of increas- 

 ingly. It seems to grow 

 in public favor, and 

 this, after all, is the 

 true test of merit." 



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MINNEAPOLIS 



The Journal : 



" This is the kind of 

 book which people who 

 wanta 'distinctly Amer- 

 rican literature ' should 

 rejoice over. " 



KANSAS CITY 



The Times : 



" The man or woman 

 anvwhere between 20 or 

 loo years old who can 



read this masterpiece of common sense without much 

 laughter mingled with the very greatest admiration is ready 

 for translation to a quieter and more congenial sphere." 



SAN FRANCISCO, The Call: 



" A thoroughlv interesting bit of fiction, with a well- 

 defined plot, a slender but easily followed ' love '. in- 

 terest, some bold and finely sketched character drawing, 

 and a perfect gold mine of shrewd, dialectic philosophy." 



BOSTON, The Literary World : 



" The newsboys on the street can talk of ' David Ha- 

 rum,' but scarcely a week ago we heard an intelligent 

 girl of fifteen, in a house which entertains the best of 

 the daily papers and the weekly reviews, ask, 'Who is 

 Kipling?' " 



SYRACUSE, The Herald : 



" A masterpiece of character painting. In David Ha- 

 rum, the shrewd, whimsical, horse-trading country bank- 

 er, the author has depicted a tvpe of character that is by 

 no means new to fiction, but nowhere else has it been 

 so carefully, faithfully, and realistically wrought out." 



CHARLESTON, 



News Courier : 



" For real insight in- 

 to the springs of human 

 action this novel must 

 always take a high rank 



among its fellows." 



NASHVILLE, 



The Banner : 



"The book deserves 

 all the popularity it has 

 attained, and is in a 

 marked degree one of 

 the best novels of re- 

 cent years." 



ST. LOUIS, 



The Mirror : 



" ' David Harum,' 

 unless 1 mistake, is one 

 of the American im- 

 mortals." 



SAVANNAH, The Morning News : 



" Fi]]HiLir with vDung people as well as old people, and 

 with rich and poor alike. All classes find pleasure in it." 



NEW ORLEANS, Times-Democrat: 



"It is just a plain, honest record of plain people, by 

 a writer with insight into character and a sound sense of 

 humor. Is American through and through, and could 

 have been the product of no other soil than ours." 





LONDON (England), The Academy : "if 'David Harum' contains any surprise, it 

 is that an amateur of letters should have been able to produce such good work, and that such good work 

 should be so widely appreciated. . . . David Harum remains — David Harum will probably remain for 

 some years — a convincing and delightful creation, and, in the sense that it sticks in the memory, a mem- 

 orable one. . . . The fact is that David Harum, the character presented, has an extraordinary fascination 

 and delectability, and the success of the book is less literary than a s.iccess of humanity. . . . David 

 Harum would have enchanted the British Islands if he had been properly introduced to them. Had Mr. 

 Westcott been ' discovered ' in the right English quarters, had fifty little things happened, then the fame 

 (if ' David Harum ' might have filled England. " 



