"So exquisitely is the book printed, that every jest in it shines like a new gold dollar. It is the apotheosis of jokes.... There is jollity enough in it to keep the whole American press good humored."
"Mark Lemon, who helps to flavor Punch, has gathered this volume of anecdotes, this parcel of sharp and witty sayings, and we have no fear in declaring that the reader will find it a book of some wisdom and much amusement. By this single 'Lemon' we judge of the rest."
"This little volume is a very agreeable provocative of mirth, and as such, it will be useful in driving dull care away."
"It contains many old jokes, which like good wine become all the better for age, and many new and fugitive ones which until now never had a local habitation and a name."
"For a fireside we can imagine nothing more diverting or more likely to be laughed over during the intervals of labor or study."
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Arne; A Sketch of Norwegian Country Life, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson