"A person!" echoed the doctor. "My dear girl, that was an awfully educated young man. He's an M.B.! and he's going to run the practice on dignified lines. What more can the beggars ask for their sixpences than real drugs and dignity?"
"Fatty," said his daughter, in a voice of cold resolve, "if you take me away from here, do you know what I shall do? I shall live with Aunt Isobel and go to school, and grow up to be a little lady."
"Ha!" cried the doctor, starting up.... "I'd forgotten you. Bring out the Burgundy.... We'll consider it."
"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_.
"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_.
*SOME SCATTERED CHAPTERS IN THE LIFE OF A HUSSY
*"No one can fail to recognise his rare qualities of sincerity and sympathy, and his gift for impressionist character-drawing."--_Punch_.