“ `Hang the books!' said an appreciative examiner, to whom we handed a copy for
inspection, `I can't afford to buy them, but I can't do without this;' and laughing until
the tears ran, he drew forth the purchase-money. It is just so, reader; you can't do
without this book. It is so full of genial humor and pure human nature that your wife
and children must have it, to be able to realize how much enjoyment may be shut up
within the lids of a book. It is full of human kindness, rich in humor, alive with wit,
mingled here and there with those faint touches of melancholy which oft-times touch
Mirth's borders.”

“She has caused many a lip to relax from incontinent primness into the broadest kind
of a grin—has given to many a mind the material for an odd but not useless revery—has
scooped out many a cove on the dry shores of newspaper reading, and invited the mariner
reader to tarry and refresh himself. `Ruth Partington' is a Christian and a patriot.
Such a book will go everywhere—be welcomed like a returned exile—do good, and cease
not.”

“If it is true that one grows fat who laughs, then he who reads this book will fat up,
even though he may be one of Pharaoh's `lean kine.' That it does one good to laugh,
nobody doubts. We have shook and shook while running through this charming volume,
until it has seemed as though we had increased in weight some fifty gounds, more or
less.”

“A regular Yankee institution is Mrs. Partington, and well deserves the compliment of
a book devoted to her sayings and doings. She is here brought before the public, which
is so greatly indebted to her unique vocabulary for exhaustiess stores of fun, in a style
worthy of her distinguished character.”

“There is a world of goodness in her blessed heart, as there is a universe of quiet fun
in the book before us. `A gem of purest ray serene' glitters on almost every page.
Everybody should buy the book; everybody, at least, who loves genial, quiet wit, which
never wounds, but always heals where it strikes.”

“It is crammed full of her choicest sayings, and rings from title page to `finis' with her
unconscious wit. It is just the book for one to read at odd moments—to take on the cars
or home of an evening—or to devour in one's office of a rainy day. It is an excellent
antidote for the blues.”

“Housewivos who occasionally get belated about their dinner, should have it lying
round. It will prevent a deal of grumbling from their `lords,' by keeping them so well
employed as to make them forget their dinner.”

“Her `sayings' have gone the world over, and given her an immortality that will glitter
and sparkle among the records of genius wherever wit and humor shall be appreciated.”

“IT IS A LOVE TALE OF THE MOST ENTRANCING KIND.”

“WHO IS THE AUTHOR? WE GUESS A LADY.”