The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-03-22
BILL ARP,
What the Papers Say About His Latest
and Best Book.
The Verdict of the Critics Has Been
Ratified by the People in the
Largo Sales.

No southern book Of recent years has met
with so warm a reception this new volume
Of Bill Apps best letters and sketches. The
verdict of the critics and the people has been
the same. The large sales of the book show
how it is rcished by the masses, ana the fol-
lowing extracts from reviews by the leading
papers of the United States will show that
there Is no part of this great country where
the writings of the Georgia hunorist- philoso
pher are not highly appreciated.
The price of the look is 81, so postpaid, and
orders should be auuresscd to The Constitu-
ton.
The following are extracts from some Of the
many complimentary notices:
I was down with tne grip when I got Bill
Apps book, and 1 begun to read and laugh
and laugh and read again. quit taking
a week I was sound and well. Why should
we not look on the bright side and be happy?
Get Bill Apps book and read It, and live right,
and you are sure to be happy.-W. NJ Staple
ton, in Home and Farm.
Fill APPS quaint, delightful humor is al
again and never tire of him. Bill Nye is a
contortiouist, liill Arp IS true to nature and
writes without straning for effect Ills
weekly letters will live and be treasured long
after Bill Nye is dead and forgotten.-James
Il. Randall in Catholic Mirror.
The genial southcrner who began during
the civil war TO write numerous sketches over
the signature "Bnl Arp" and who has been
at it ever since, has just collected more than
fifty of his scattered papers into a book called
"Thc Farm and Firesidc; Sketches OF Do
nestle Life in War and Peace" 1t is good
reading all the way through; there isn't a bit
of machino-made fun III it, but there IS
genuine hunor On every page and with It a
especially noticeable in funny men because so
few Of them display any of it in print: After
n few pages the reader begins to imagine him
self sitting on a southern porch and chat
ting with shrew1. warm-hearted old fellow
in shirt sleeves, with n cob pipe IN ms mouth;
n merry twinkle in his eye and a thousand
nlcasinS recollecti1ns in lis heart.-New York
Herald.
Tho Farm and Fircsdn.-Bv Charles II.
Smith Giill Arp. C\tianta; The Constltq-
ton Publishing Company. Major Smith, bet
ter known as 'Bill Arp" is among the best
known humorist-p philosophers of the south.
FOR many wears he has been among the con-
tributors to The Atlanta Constitution ana ! ne
Inter Ocean has time and again copied MS
mus and 'Bill Arp" always original and full
of the milk of human Kindness. Will never go
amiss for read ars. They are as popular III
the homes in the north rs in their homes in
Georgia. Uncle Rc!uuS IS the representative
of the negro IN the plantation, while 1911
finds his characters in the homes III the Heor-
gia woods and at crossroads groceries,
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Ono Of tho ouaintest or the southern hui
morists is Charles II. Smith, whose non de
nlure-Bill Apis a household word in that
section. For some thirty years he has been
ministcring to the public in his way. through
the newspapers, and now the publishers or
The Atlanta Constitution have enbamcd the
hest Of bis funny sayings and sketches in "A
book which is n genuine addition to the M
moristic literature of the countrE. MI,
Smiths humor is not at all dependent on mere
Guaintnoss of speech or apt rendition or the
native dialects though he eXees in 20 Goth oh 1nGfe
- ~ COO The ronicaI side Of things which 10
o ff s@f are tn merely COMMONPLACE even scr
Gus. There is nothing uproarious about MN I'm;
mis- bunror. COR the most part, is of the Dry
ord n,Iict sort ana it has very often tnat
touch Of the pathetic which is so closely allied
to hamor at its bespcttGt IF f@r ST So
Address THE Constitution, Atlanta, Ga.
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