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_*BY THE SAME AUTHOR*_
*KITCHENER CHAPS*
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"These little sketches are humorous, loving, and manifestly
genuine."--_Spectator_.
"Mr. Neil Lyons writes as the friend and observer of the New Army; ...
is a master of cockney humour.... There are other soldiers in his book,
but those who talk cockney are the most delightful.... As to nearly
everything that Mr. Lyons' cockneys say, we have an instinctive feeling
that it is exactly right."--_Times_.
"There is no writer of our day who is so free from prejudice as Mr. Neil
Lyons, or puts down on paper so fearlessly the actual dialogue of our
streets.... Here, you will say, is the very man to take down the talk
of the humbler members of Lord Kitchener's Armies. And you will be
right. You will laugh heartily over 'Kitchener Chaps.'"--_Sunday
Times_.
"Mr. Neil Lyons' sketches of the recruits in the new army are splendid,
humorous and human pen-pictures, almost the first genuine literature
that the war has produced.
"One of the sketches, 'Old Nitch,' is a superb little masterpiece, but
they are all very, very good."--_Daily Express_.
*ARTHUR'S*
*THE ROMANCE OF A COFFEE STALL*
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"Very pretty comedy ... not only a very entertaining and amusing work,
but a very kindly and tolerant work also. At the back of it is
understanding and love of life, and that most admirable frame of mind
for an artist, the live-and-let-live temperament."--_Times_.
"'Arthur's' can cordially be recommended.... Mr. Lyons seems to have the
animating gift as well as the seeing eye, and a kindly humour in
selection and treatment brings out the light and warmth of the stall
rather than its flare and smell."--_Manchester Guardian_.
*CLARA*
*SOME SCATTERED CHAPTERS IN THE LIFE OF A HUSSY*
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"No one can fail to recognise his rare qualities of sincerity and
sympathy, and his gift for impressionist character-drawing."--_Punch_.
"It is a true picture--and the courage of the under-people is daintily,
sincerely, and dexterously revealed. One is glad to have known
Clara."--_Daily Mail_.
"All are admirable, and one could only wish that every worker in
philanthropic or municipal machinery would learn them by
heart."--_Nation_.
*SIXPENNY PIECES*
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'Sixpenny Pieces' is as good as 'Arthur's.' ... For a book full of
laughter and tears and bits innumerable that one feels impelled to read
aloud, 'Sixpenny Pieces' would be very hard indeed to beat."--_Evening
Standard_.
"Those who remember 'Arthur's,' by the same writer, will not need to be
told what excellent use he makes of his opportunities. A book of which
every page is a delight, written with humour and sympathy, and a gentle
satire, none the less biting for its restraint. In short, Mr. Lyons'
'Sixpenny Pieces' have the ring of true metal, and I for one shall
eagerly anticipate another issue from the same excellent
mint."--_Punch_.
*COTTAGE PIE*
*A COUNTRY SPREAD*
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"Marked with the humour and grip with which Mr. Lyons visualizes an
episode, and by his remarkable power of transcribing the talk of the
less educated classes of the community."--_Times_.
"We doubt if it would be easy to overpraise Mr. Neil Lyons, for his
humour is of the truest and most discreet order. A jollier,
cheerfuller, more sympathetic book than 'Cottage Pie,' will be sought
after in vain among the successes of the season."--_Daily Telegraph_.
*SIMPLE SIMON*
*HIS ADVENTURES IN THE THISTLE PATCH*