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By JEROME K. JEROME

LONDON: FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS, E.C.

ONE SHILLING.

PRESS OPINIONS.

"A brightly written work, and an agreeable addition to stage literature."—Athenæum.

"A very readable book."—Pall Mall Gazette.

"Within its pages are many shillings' worth of genuine merriment"—New York Mirror.

"Very interesting."—Progress (Philadelphia).

"A really honest book."—Frend's Music and Drama (New York).

"There is more humour and fun in Mr Jerome's book than in half-a dozen modern comedies."—Glasgow Herald.

"The book is brimful of the most side-splitting humour."—Glasgow News.

"Written in a masterly manner—deserves to be widely read."—Western Daily Press.

"The reminiscences of a would-be actor are capital reading."—Brighton Herald.

"Highly interesting. Mr Jerome writes in a fluent, racy, and humorous style."—Northern Counties Gazette.

"One of the raciest and yet most self-evidently truthful accounts of the stage."—Newcastle Daily Journal.

"Very amusing."—Hampshire Telegraph.

"We found it very amusing reading."—Sheffield Daily Telegraph.

"Amusingly written." "The author's style is light and pleasant."—Punch.

"Had Mark Twain never existed, the writer of 'On the Stage—and Off,' might claim to be the most original joker of the century."—Topical Times.

"Extremely funny."—Judy.

"No one taking up this little book is likely to lay it down until the last page is turned."—Graphic.

"The stories that Mr Jerome tells are quite inimitable, and no less inimitable is his way of telling them. They are distinguished by a tripping cynicism and lively wit rarely found in any English book."—Lady.

"Full of genuine humour."—Life.

"Amusing and interesting."—Society.

"Altogether the book is a most amusing one."—Era.

"Pictures drawn with a light easy truth and considerable sarcastic humour."—Lady's Pictorial.

"There is much that is pathetic and more that is entertaining in his account of stage life."—Morning Post.

"Mr Jerome writes shrewdly and with a good deal of quiet humour."—Stage.

"A struggling actor's life is vividly portrayed."—Figaro.

"We can strongly recommend the expenditure of the sum of one shilling necessary to put them in possession of a copy."—Sporting Times.