"Mr. Barrie sings tobacco, with incidental sketches of people who smoke it and people who won't permit it to be smoked. It is a book of premeditated humor, in which the premeditation is fairly well concealed. … the fun is of a quiet, incisive kind, and unusually well sustained." —from a review in The Nation, September 1891.
"Nearly the whole of this book has already appeared—in a somewhat different form—in the St. James's Gazette, from which it is reprinted by courteous permission."—prefatory note in another edition.
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