WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
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Judgments in Vacation.
SOME PRESS OPINIONS.
Athenæum.—“They deal among other topics with the letters of Dorothy Osborne, the disadvantage of education, the craftsmanship of the drama and the nice problems of the kitchen; and they all possess a lightness of touch and sense of companionableness which makes them agreeable reading.”
G. K. Chesterton in Illustrated London News.—“I cannot refrain from imploring my readers to get hold of Judge Parry’s ‘Judgments in Vacation,’ it is extraordinarily good.”
Morning Leader.—“Literature and law jostle each other with a delightful air of indifference.”
The Standard.—“It is a rollicking book.”
Daily Graphic.—“A wide range of knowledge and experience and a faculty of literary skill unite to make this collection of his papers exceedingly readable.”
Manchester Guardian.—“It is all very jolly and irresponsible.”
Eye-witness.—“But it is not only a witty, sparkling book, it is a human document in which the tragedy of the poor, their never-ending debts, their hopeless yet patient insolvency is sketched with a profound insight, a living sympathy.”
Westminster Gazette.—“But perhaps we have said enough to show that for an hour or two by the fire the book is all good company.”
Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury.—“The essays and papers in his Honour’s book are in every way worthy of the bright humour, vivacity and literary skill we are wont to associate with the name of the Admirable Crichton of the County Court Bench.”
The Spectator.—“Judge Parry deals with various subjects, social, literary and other, and has something worth hearing to say about all of them.”
Daily Telegraph.—“Whether his themes are grave or gay the mood in which he treats them, lively or severe, Judge Parry is invariably interesting, and his volume should be widely read.”
Morning Post.—“For to pay the last and best compliment, clubability of style is a thing as pleasant as it is rare.”
Yorkshire Post.—“But humour is by no means the only rare quality in these ‘Judgments.’ In the pure Lamb and Stevenson sense they are literature.”
Evening Standard and St. James’s.—“It goes without saying that this collection of essays is witty, full of amusing anecdotes, and besides that, is written with the literary sense which always dignifies the work of his Honour.”
Law Magazine.—“All the essays are worth reading, but the most important are connected with the County Court.”
Boston Evening Transcript.—“His latest book is as witty and wise as any of its predecessors, and may be heartily commended without any reserve to all who enjoy an essayist of the Lamb School.” New York Herald.—“The definite qualities of jurisprudence have not so often found so agreeable an exponent as the author of these graceful, good natured essays.”