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." 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). LONDON: HENRY & CO., 6, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C. The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour. Edited by W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS. A New Series of Monthly Volumes designed to supply the Public with Entertaining Literature by the Best Writers. _Crown 8vo, cloth, with Portrait, 2s. 6d. each._ VOL. I.--=ESSAYS IN LITTLE.= By ANDREW LANG. Sixth Thousand. _Also a Large-Paper Edition_ (_limited to 150, all sold upon subscription_). _Crown 4to. 10s. 6d. net._ OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "If it is well to judge by firstfruits (and, generally speaking, the judgment is right), the new 'Whitefriars Library' should compass the very laudable designs of its projectors. The first monthly volume of the new series may fairly be said to be aflush with the finest promise. Mr. Andrew Lang's 'ESSAYS IN LITTLE' is one of the most entertaining and bracing of books. Full of bright and engaging discourse, these charming and recreative essays are the best of good reading. Hard must be 'the cynic's lips' from which Mr. Lang's sportive pen does not 'dislodge the sneer,' harder that 'brow of care' whose wrinkles refuse to be smoothed by Mr. Lang's gentle sarcasms and agreeable raillery.... 'ESSAYS IN LITTLE' ought to win every vote, and please every class of reader."--_Saturday Review._ "The volume is delightful, and exhibits Mr. Lang's light and dexterous touch, his broad literary sympathies, and his sound critical instinct to great advantage."--_Times._ "'The Whitefriars Library' has begun well. Its first issue is a volume by Mr. Andrew Lang, entitled 'ESSAYS IN LITTLE.' Mr. Lang is here at his best--alike in his most serious and his lightest moods. We find him turning without effort, and with equal success, from 'Homer and the Study of Greek,' to 'The Last Fashionable Novel'--on one page attacking grimly the modern newspaper tendency to tittle-tattle (in a 'Letter to a Young Journalist'), on another devising a bright parody in prose or verse. Mr. Lang is in his most rollicking vein when treating of the once popular Haynes Bayly, the author of 'I'd be a Butterfly' and things of that sort. With Bayly's twaddling verse Mr. Lang is in satiric ecstasies; he revels in its unconscious inanity, and burlesques it repeatedly with infinite gusto.... His tone is always urbane, his manner always bright and engaging. No one nowadays has a style at once so light and so well bred.... It is always pleasant, and frequently delightful."--_Globe_. VOL. II.--=SAWN OFF: A Tale of a Family Tree.= By G. MANVILLE FENN. [_Fourth Thousand._