“I wish I was back in New York, just sitting down to a good square meal with some friends.” And so to-night it is pleasant to realize that virtue is at least triumphant and that his wish has come true. --_John T. McCutcheon_ * * * * * My admiration for him and what he has done is really beyond words. --_J. A. Mitchell_ * * * * * [Illustration: IRVIN KULTUR KOBB PADUCAH KY. U.S.A. AS “GERMANY” IN “EUROPE REVISED” BY WILLIAM H. WALKER] * * * * * (BY CABLE) Monumental on a boot cleaning stand, he is equally interested in cigars and in assassinations, and he likes to wear his thinnest clothes in winter. His stories are always reliable, even when they deal with the British War Office. After annexing Broadway he took Belgium and his book thereon is history. He sees straight and writes straight, and I am his friend and his fan. --_Arnold Bennett_ * * * * * Cobb’s “Paths of Glory” is acclaimed throughout Britain to be the most vivid, most moving, most convincing of all books on the Great War; which means the British public recognizes in the printed page the compelling personality of its author. I am proud to be his publisher. --_J. E. Hodder Williams_ * * * * * [Illustration: BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY] * * * * * Irvin Cobb leads his league in everything but base running. He went to the Belgian battle-fields equipped as a war correspondent with a facile pen, a sense of humor, and a wonderful repertoire of darkey stories. He came back with a neutral dialect, a reputation enhanced by the depth and sincerity of his writing, and the mantles of Archibald Forbes and Bennett Burleigh combining to cover--at least--portions of him. --_Walter Hale_ * * * * * We have long appreciated the corn of the South whose bright kernels, properly distilled, make brighter Colonels still. Yet when before have we worshipped the Cobb of the South? Here, surely, is all the brightness and all the stimulation--and all the nourishment which a fat land can give to a lean and hungry world. More joy comes from one Cobb than from 1,000,000,000 bushels of corn--and although he is rare, in one sense, in another he may be ranked as the South’s largest output. --_Wallace Irwin_ * * * * * I see no reason why I should not say that I like Irvin Cobb--because I do, very much. He does not irritate the throat; and, if you are a magazine editor, his is the stuff you will eventually buy.