"'Vice Versa' is a remarkable book. It has been received in England with a clamor of applause, and deserves all the good that has been said of it."--_New York Critic._ "An uncommonly bright and amusing novel. It is brimful of clean and spirited humor, and is as diverting a book as we have met with in some time: refined in character, admirable in literary style, and equally keen and clever in satire."--_Boston Gazette._ "'Vice Versa' has a rare and lasting flavor that will make it sought."--_Boston Globe._ "A capital book, full of fun, constantly provoking to laughter, and abounding in dramatic incidents. It is the cleverest book of the kind that has been written for many a day."--_Baltimore Sun._ "If you want the best novel of the year, buy 'Vice Versa.'"--_Chicago Inter-Ocean._ "One of the drollest and most entertaining books ever written."--_New York Churchman._ "A work of genuine and well-sustained humor from beginning to end."--_Utica, N. Y. Herald._ UNCLE REMUS: _His Songs and his Sayings._ THE FOLK-LORE OF THE OLD PLANTATION. By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. "The idea of preserving and publishing these legends in the form in which the old plantation negroes actually tell them, is altogether one of the happiest literary conceptions of the day. And very admirably is the work done.... In such touches lies the charm of this fascinating little volume of legends, which deserves to be placed on a level with _Reincke Fuchs_ for its quaint humor, without reference to the ethnological interest possessed by these stories, as indicating, perhaps, a common origin for very widely-severed races."--_London Spectator._ "We are just discovering what admirable literary material there is at home, what a great mine there is to explore, and how quaint and peculiar is the material which can be dug up. Mr. Harris's book may be looked on in a double light--either as a pleasant volume recounting the stories told by a typical old colored man to a child, or as a valuable contribution to our somewhat meager folk-lore.... To Northern readers the story of Brer (Brother--Brudder) Rabbit may be novel. To those familiar with plantation life, who have listened to these quaint old stories, who have still tender reminiscences of some good old mauma who told these wondrous adventures to them when they were children, Brer Rabbit, the Tar Baby, and Brer Fox, come back again with all the past pleasures of younger days."--_New York Times._ "Uncle Remus's sayings on current happenings are very shrewd and bright, and the plantation and revival songs are choice specimens of their sort."--_Boston Journal._