By SAMUEL PEPYS, JUNR.
With 16 Illustrations by
M. WATSON-WILLIAMS
_Crown 8vo. 5s. net. Sixth Edition._
_Times._--“All that has happened, all that has been said or
thought about the war, is preserved by Mr. Pepys, Junior, in a
style that robs it of all offence and gives us a faithful mirror
of our times.”
_Scotsman._--“The trick of intermingling small things with great
and of slipping without effort, in the immortal Samuel’s best
style, from the great European conflict to his wife’s hats is so
reminiscent that the pages move the reader to constant smiles.”
_Pall Mall Gazette._--“It is hard to decide which is more
pleasing in this book--the text or the illustrations. The
Senior Pepys has transmitted something of all his wonderful and
divers qualities to the descendant--his ubiquitous eye, his
garrulousness, his exuberant egoism and perfect selfishness, and
his humour.”
_Star._--“A more agreeable gallery of diverting worldlings we
have seldom met.”
_Westminster Gazette._--“Being absolutely inimitable, Pepys has
had many imitators. But none with whom we are acquainted has
succeeded so well in a most difficult task as ‘Samuel Pepys,
Junr.’”
_Land and Water._--“Great events have crowded so quickly on
one another that already we find it difficult to arrange our
recollections rightly. In this diary, flavoured with Attic salt,
we are carried back to hours and controversies which seem to-day
almost to belong to a previous life. Into whatever page one
may choose to dip, there is something to arrest attention, to
encourage reading and to awaken mirth.”
_To-Day._--“Here at length we have an imitation of Pepys’ Diary
which is as perfect and satisfying as such a thing could well be.
Samuel Pepys, Junior, knows the original with uncanny exactitude.”
_British Weekly._--“A book of genius. In many ways it is the most
wonderful book that this war has produced.”
_Daily Mail._--“It is the most diverting book that has appeared
for many a day. Laughable though the book is, it has the
seriousness and the acid of all good satire, and is as faithful a
history withal of these days as any that the serious historians
have penned.”