Through the Outlooking Glass

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A series of comic sketches follows a blustering Red Knight and the observant girl Alice through absurd episodes that mirror political and social life. Their wanderings bring them into encounters with a paradoxical progressive waiter, a showy presidential hopeful, domestic strains such as an old woman with many children coping with high prices, and mock debates settled by literal-minded logic and physical antics. The pieces rely on wordplay, whimsical inversions, and topical satire to expose contradictions in promises, rhetoric, and economic anxieties while keeping a light, humorous tone.

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Light Studies in Everyday Life

Reprinted from The Evening Post

The charming series of essays which have attracted many readers to the New York Evening Post, are here to be found in a bound volume. These witty and thoughtful lucubrations may henceforth be counted as a "permanent possession," and be stored on a book-shelf instead of wandering round as fugitive leaves. There is hardly an essayist of the present day in this country whose work seems better deserving of preservation.—The Literary Digest

With the coming of "The Patient Observer" a new—and true—humorist enters the field of American literature.—New York Times

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