Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey
fascinating 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 as 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
for his children would be 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 master 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 safe 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 as remarkable for its
powers of absurdity as ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ or ‘Alice in
Wonderland,’ if not so 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 great variety of preposterous people he falls in
with.”
=CHRISTIAN STANDARD.= “One of those 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 over
with genuine humor, and is just the book for boys who are wearing
their first pants, or even of a 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.”
Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of Bubbleland
PRESS NOTICES
=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 ought to say more truthfully,
though ungrammatically, ‘themself’—with delightful 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 for 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.”
Little Giant Boab and His Talking Raven Tabib
PRESS NOTICES
=NEW YORK TRIBUNE.= “‘The Wonderful Deeds and Doings of Little Giant
Boab and his Talking Raven Tabib’ takes higher rank than any other
book of the season intended for young people, and is indeed even
cleverer than its amusing predecessor, which recounted the
adventures of Baron Trump and his delightful dog Bulger. In this
story of a mighty young Spanish giant, Tabib, 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 book is blent a sweet and kindly spirit that much enhances
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 dispel any possible doubt as to the real
existence of his hero. Ingenious Mr. Lockwood! 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 discover the dividing line
between fact and fancy. There seems to be no limit to the author’s
imagination, and Boab is brought bravely out of one combination of
perils only to be involved in another still more alarming. Nothing
is impossible to his strong arm and quick wit, and whether
shouldering a massive castle-door, or tripping up El Gran Capitan
and pinning him to the floor with a two-ton statue, 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 same 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 as successful as ‘Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog
Bulger,’ which made such a 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 read and
listened to and talked over in 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 an old Moorish
legend and made use of it to furnish a first-rate fairy tale which
will delight the children almost as much as older folk are
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 weaknesses are exhibited in the light of