Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey/Adverts
Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger
PRESS NOTICES
BOSTON TIMES. "Mr. Ingersoll Lockwood is nothing if not original—and he is original. The most partial critic would not dare to deny him that desirable gift after it glance at his 'Litte Baron Trump.' Like the great Munchausen, the little Baron has a mission for travel, a lust of adventure, a fever of imagination. He sees, says, and does queer things; accidents never heard of outside the lunatic asylums and Mr. Lockwood's pages test his resources at every hand; to 'grapple with an emergency' is beneath him—he simply walks over it. We owe Mr. Lockwood thanks, too, for that he has neglected to wrap a moral around his tales, and has given us simply a delightful example of the art of sustained fooling."
UTICA HERALD. "A book which might easily be rated one of the posthumous chapters of the 'Arabian Nights.' so for to: its style goes, and possessing, as the little Baron observes, 'an almost Oriental exuberance of fancy.' The pictures by Mr. Edwards are very comical, and as ingenious as they are quaint. But they are hardly as wonderful as the doings of the young Baron and his more wonderful confidant, Bulger. Surely never was such another dog as he."
NATIONAL TRIBUNE. "The travels and adventures of Baron Trump and the bulldog are indeed extraordinary, even more so than those of 'Sinbad the Sailor.' The book is full of quaint humor, side-splitting at times. The Baron in an extremely precocious, and Bulger, through he cannot talk, is gifted with the worldly wisdom and acuteness of a Prime Minster."
WOMAN'S CYCLE. "Poor Munchausen won his reputation in the nick of time. A law generations later and he would have had no chance at all. His inventive genius would have fallen below that of a reporter for a 'great' daily. Imagination is accustomed nowadays to astounding flights. It performs a series of them in this book, which is also illustrated so comically as to make the small boy sit on the floor and wriggle with delight, while his elders guffaw boisterously. It is, in fact, a 'funny' book."
NEW YORK SUN. "A very whimsical and ingenious title is that entitled 'Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger.' Young or old readers will appreciate the humor of the author. The illustrations by George Wharton Edwards admirably supplement the text.
ALTA CALIFORNIAN. "Heathen mythology. 'The Arabian Night,' and the modern fairy tale are brought to mind by the wonderful scenes, but there is no evidence of plagiarism, startling originality being far more in the author's lines than surreptitious imitation. Many of the marvels are ingeniously founded on the scientific theories of recent years, and satires on popular shortcomings or delusions are conveyed in the guise of some perilous experience. The author has evidently given full but harmless rein to an original and prolific imagination."
PORTLAND TELEGRAM. "One of the most interesting stories for young people ever issued by an American publisher. Its humor is contagious, its fun rollicking, while the variety and astonishing nature of the experiences of the pair holds the reader captive until the end. The illustrations by Wharton Edwards lend an added charm to the work."
N .Y. TRIBUNE. "Mr. Lockwood's clever book, though modeled, no doubt on Munchhausen's narrative, has a whimsical originality of invention which the first Baron might have envied. it is a question whether the very youthful reader will hilly appreciate all the fun which an older reader finds therein; but it is certain that the book will not be dropped until the last prodigious adventure is absorbed. As a book of fantastic impossibilities, gravely set forth, it is the most attractive devised in many a season."
PUBLIC OPINION. "One of the jolllust and must rollicking stories of the year. It is an old-time children's story, full of marvel, mystery and adventure. The author, Ingersoll Lockwood. has succeeded in writing a capital boy's book that is at once laminating and wholesome, as well as being good literature. The abundant illustrations, drawn by George Wharton Edwards, are admirably executed and form a strong re-enforcement to the interest as well at the beauty of the work."
SACRAMENTO BEE. "A clean. well written, interesting children's book, but its adventures are so wonderful and so quaintly told that many a parent who would buy the book as a Christmas present (or his children would he beguiled into reading it for his own amusement,"
ST. PAUL DISPATCH. "It is a fanciful tale with a healthy tone throughout. Moreover, it is put in an attractive form. the cover being an unique combination of gray. black and brown, while the print is clear and the illustrations very attractive. 'Bulger' Was Little Baron Trump's companion from his birth; the relation of his attachment for his toaster and their adventures among strange peoples and in new countries is very entertaining. The book will be heartily welcomed by both boys and girls, and it is a sale book to place in their hands."
BROOKLYN EAGLE. "A delightfully absurd and sarcastic boy's story is 'Little Baron Trump and His Wonderful Dog Bulger.' with equally absurd and wonderful illustrations. It is us remarkable for its powers of absurdity as 'Gulliver's Travels' or 'Alice in Wonderland,' if not no sarcastic as the first, and the illustrations are not merely absurd travesties, but works of art characteristically and in drawing. Bulger is truly a wonderful dog, but no more wonderful than his phenomenally brainy young master and the grant variety preposterous people he hills in with."
CHRISTIAN STANDARD. "One of times strange, whimsical, julesvernish romances which, while they have neither mission nor moral, plot or purpose. are strangely fascinating to children. This quaint and curious volume of never-to-be-forgotten lore is rendered the more attractive by numerous grotesque, giggles—begetting illustrations, by George Wharton Edwards."
HEALTH AND HOME. "This work will delight both young and old. It gives a series of ludicrous adventures of the Little Baron and his famous dog that are not only amusing, but, in many cases, point useful morals. It contains over 300 pages, all of which brim own with genuine humor, and is just the book for boys who are wearing their first pants, or even of larger growth."
MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE. "A romance of wonderland, for old and young. It would be difficult to find a volume of adventures which would surpass Mr. Lockwood's presentations of the wonders of travel, and of the deeds of the valiant heroes who trumpet their bravery and daring after laughable and amusing style."
LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Boston
Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of Bubbleland
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CLEVELAND PLAINDEALER. "Ingersoll Lockwood, who delighted and bewildered readers young and old with those queer extravaganzas, 'Little Baron Trump' and 'Little Giant Boab,' has perpetrated another joke of the same kind in his 'Extraordinary Experiences of Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of Bubbleland.' The boy, who was twins in himself, a sort of juvenile Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has a lot of surprising and comical adventures that are narrated by himself—or perhaps we—with delightful thought to say more truthfully, though ungrammatically, 'themself'—simplicity."
BOSTON HOME JOURNAL. "For its quaint conceptions it has never been surpassed, if equalled, by anything of the kind. The idea of creating a character like that of Little Captain Doppelkop was a great stroke of genius. The adventures of the Little Captain in Bubbleland are of the most marvellous character, and constantly lead from one surprise to another still more surprising, and they are related with a sparkle and naturalness that keep the reader's high interest continually on the topmost round of expectancy. If Mr. Lockwood can beat his own record on this extravaganza, then he will indeed stand the champion imaginator of the world."
NORTHWESTERN MAGAZINE. "Ingersoll Lockwood has quite outdone himself this time. The trouble is there are 287 large pages of pure enjoyment and fun your open-mouthed boys, and the small ones won't let you stop till you've read them every one, not to speak of letting them take the book at every page or two to look at the droll pictures which Clifton Johnson has so fitted to the text. 'Little Captain Doppelkop' was two children rolled into one, and their adventures in Glaucus' Gluepot, Bubbleland, the Castle of Indolence, and elsewhere—all kept even poor old me interested. The book is bound prettily in gray-green, touched up with darker and gold just the book for your boy's Xmas tree."
THE HOUSEKEEPER. "'Little Captain Doppelkop,' being the extraordinary experiences of the oddest and most amusing little fellow that ever made or found his way from wonderful babyhood and its mysteries out into the big, crazy world. Ingersoll Lockwood, the author of this book, makes it his business to stow away a lot of sense into a hundred small packets of nonsense, so that the boy or girl who reads the three hundred pages that tell all about the impossible absurdities of the little Captain will be the happier and the wiser."
BOSTON COURIER. "This we confess to finding one of the most amusing and ingenious books of its kind that has been written in our time. It is spontaneous and sparkling, and there is throughout an unfailing succession of novel surprises such as only the most fantastically fertile fancy could have devised. The central idea, that of the boy who was really two persons, is a capital one, good enough to make the fortune of any book, and it is capitally carried out."
NEW LONDON TELEGRAPH. "'Little Captain Doppelkop' is an extravaganza as curious as was ever conceived and depicted in prose and picture. Ingersoll Lockwood showed in 'Little Baron Trump' how possible it was to be a delightful yet perfectly unobjectionable Munchausen. 'Little Captain Doppelkop,' from beginning to end, is filled with entrancing and absorbing adventures, and the facile pencil fully supplements the pen. No such work has been attempted by American writers, and the great success which attended Mr. Ingersoll in his former achievement cannot fail to be repeated now. The spirit, energy, and simple way in which the narrative seems to hug the possible render it so effective that whoever takes it up finds himself turning page after page until he unwillingly comes to the last."
BOSTON GLOBE. "'Little Captain Doppelkop '—Why 'Doppelkop' it is necessary to read—is bound to be a tremendous success, and deserves a place as a child's classic with those which delighted our boyhood."
LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Boston
Little Giant Boab and His Talking Raven Tabib
PRESS NOTICES
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, "'The Wonderful Deals and Doings of Little Giant Boab and his Talking Raven Tahib' takes higher rank than any other book of the season intruded for young people, and is indeed even cleverer than its amusing predecessor, with recounted the adventures of Baron Trump and his delightful dog Bulger. In this story of a mighty young Spansih giant, Tahib, the raven, plays the guiding, protecting, and humorous part taken by Bulger in Mr. Ingersoll Lockwood's first story, and his somewhat cynical shrewdness and hearty affection for his master make the 'little gentleman in black' a very winning figure. With the humorous tone of the hook is blent a xii-net and kindly spirit that much enhance the charms of its wild adventures."
CRITIC, NEW YORK. "'Boab' is short for Boabdil de Clavigero, and the appellative 'Little Giant' but faintly indicates the prodigies of strength and valor performed by this marvellous child. In an elaborately erudite introduction, bristling with indisputable citations in black -letter from sixteenth-century travellers, our clever author seeks to display any possible doubt in to the real existence of his hero. Ingenious Mr. Lockwoowd! don't you know that the day is past when we youngsters used to query 'Is it true?' Few will concern themselves, as they follow with breathless eagerness the career of this precocious boy, to the discover the dividing line between fact and fancy. There seems to be no limit tn the author's imagination, and Boab is brought bravely out of one combination of perils only to he involved in another still more alarming. Nothing is imposible to his strong arm and quirk wit and whether shouldering a massive castle-door, or tripping up El Gran Capitan and pinning him to the floor with a two-ton statute, or vanquishing the frightful man-bat, or getting ahead of the Wall of living stones. or driving the cardinal through night and tempest, over the mountains to the Malaga, he is in all the ame plucky, invincible, good-natured little fellow—with whom every year will be loth to part. Fun, novelty, satire, pathos—these are a few of the elements that make this a most attractive book for the young."
BROOKLYN STANDARD UNION. "It is a pretty hard thing to invent a really new fairy tale, so completely has the ground been gone over by the old veteran story-tellers; but in 'Little Giant Boab'. Mr Lockwood has given the young folk a tale which is in many respects original, which contains many new situations and ingenious inventions, which is whimsical to the last degree, full of subtle humor and rollicking fun. It is a delightful tale, that will be quite its successful as 'Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog Bulger.' which made such it hit last season. The funny and wonderful doings of Giant Boab and his raven, with the humorous account of Boab's ancestors, his appearance in Queen Isabel's court, his feats of strength, his exploits in the Spanish camp, together with all his subsequent journeyings, will be raid and listened to and talked many a household during the coming holidays The illustrations, too, are in admirable keeping with the spirit of the story, and fitly supplement as well as adorn the text. Giant Boab is destined to be a formidable rival to Baron Munchausen himself."
BOSTON BEACON. "Ingersoll Lockwood has seized on old Moorish legend and as much use of it to furnish a first-rate fairy tale which will delight the Children almost as much as older folk art delighted with 'Don Quixote,' Little Giant Boab is as interesting a character as Hop O' My Thumb of English birth, and incidental to his adventures valuable insight into the customs and ways of Spain is afforded. The book has many wood-cuts by Clifton Johnson. Mr. Lockwood displays astonishing versatility, unlimited powers of invention, unfailing humor, and a satirical purpose which seems to be so closely interwoven with the whole narrative that its force depends altogether on the reader's capacity of comprehension. Like Swift's 'Gulliver' tales, the stories of the exploits of the Little Giant will be a source of unending entertainment to the young, while their elders will relish the clever manner in which all sorts of human weakness are exhibited in the light of wholesome ridicule. Mr. Clifton Johnson has added a large number of illustrations admirably suited to the text."
ZION'S HERALD. "This is a fairy tale which will especially delight the children. Tabib was a sly and cunning bird, but Boab was a good and brave boy; and putting these two together and setting them off, to take together whatever adventures may befall them, is sure to create a fascinating interest in them for the young. And then, too; the pictures are so many, and in many cases no funny, that this will be another source of pleasure to the reader."
LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers Boston