Walt Mason is the Aesop of our day, but his fables are of men, not animals.

Much of Walt Mason’s poetry is of universal interest.

Walt Mason’s poetry is in a class by itself.

Walt’s poems always have sound morals, and they are easy to take.

His satires come with stinging force to the American people.

Why do people ever write any other kind of books, unless because no one else can write Walt Mason’s kind?

His is an extraordinary faculty, surely God-given. Many a world-weary one, refreshed at the fount where his poetry plays, says deep down in his heart, “God bless Walt Mason!”

Walt Mason’s contributions to the Chronicle have attracted the attention of English readers by their originality and expressiveness, and have brought him letters from Mr. John Masefield and many others. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regards him as one of the quaintest and most original humorists America has ever produced.

For permission to use copyright poems in this book thanks are extended to George Matthew Adams, and to the editors and publishers of Judge, Collier’s Weekly, System, the Magazine of Business, Domestic Engineering, the Butler Way, and Curtis Service.

I read Walt Mason with great delight. His poems have wonderful fun and kindliness, and I have enjoyed them the more for their having so strongly all the qualities I liked so much in my American friends when I was living in the United States.

I don’t know any book which has struck me as so genuine a voice of the American nature.

I am glad that his work is gaining a wider and wider recognition.