"His versatility and bright and ready wit are conspicuous in all his
work. As a parodist he is second to none, not even to Mr. Calverley,
if we may take the word of the reviewers.... Mr. Seaman cracks the
whip with consummate skill, and applies it with such naughty
precision, that even his victims must find it difficult to withhold
their admiration."--_The National Observer_.
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"To every university man ... this book will be a rare treat. But in
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workmanship both in rhyme and metre ... it will appeal to a far wider
public."--_Punch_.
"We very cordially recommend Mr. Seaman's book ... to all who are
likely to care for verse which is not unworthy to be ranked with the
efforts of Calverley the immortal."--_The World_.
"Mr. Seaman manages his ingenious metres with unfailing skill."--_The
Athenæum_.
"A genial cynic with a genuine smack of Bon Gaultier."--_St. James's
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precision, the sparkle of its Latin namesake."--_The Spectator_.
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"In the political sphere Mr. Seaman is at present without a
rival."--_The Globe_.
"Taken as a whole, we are much mistaken if any better volume of
political verse has made its appearance since the days of the
_Rolliad_ and the _Anti-Jacobin_."--_The World_.
"The best of the satirists on the other side is Mr. Owen Seaman, who
has touched off some of the weaknesses of the late government with
very happy and caustic humour."--_The Spectator_.
"Mr. Seaman is own brother to Calverley, and in modern times there has
been nothing so good of its sort as 'Tillers of the Sand.'... Mr.
Seaman proves himself so brilliant a jester that it needs must be he
takes the jester's privilege of offending no one."--_The Speaker_.
"One of the most accomplished writers of occasional verse
to-day."--_Bookman_.
"It is all so good that passages are hard to choose."--_Scotsman_.
"The author's rare quality--a capacity for satirizing one's political
opponents with a wit that leaves no wound."--Mr. JAMES PAYN in _The
Illustrated London News_.
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