various contributors

“ It is not the story that lends the charm but the people who come into it, that upper-lower section of Londoners whose little peculiarities of thought, word and deed Mr. Ridge so perfectly understands. Through their mouths he utters his truest sayings, and they make his books always worth reading. ”

“ One hopes that practice with the Indian variety may help them in their chase of the Uhlan road-hog. Here's power to their spears!
For all his good humour, Mr. Pett Ridge can say a hard thing now and then about humanity in general and point it with a touch of startling sarcasm. Possibly it is this combination which makes his the favourite author he is. While we get tired of the harsh satirist who is always up against us, and pay little attention to his teaching we not only profit by the occasional home truths of the genial humourist, but thoroughly enjoy hearing them. ”

“ At the same time his sense of humour is sufficiently strong to save enthusiasm from becoming oppressive. Certainly he loves his theme, as I suppose a good pig-sticker should. "To see hog and hunter charge each other bald-headed with a simultaneous squeal of rage is," he says youthfully, "always delightful." It is all, in these more strenuous times, most refreshing and even a little wistful in its naïveté. The honest and brave gentlemen whose exploits it records are about another kind of pig-sticking now. ”