SOURCE: "Two for Delight," in The Bookman, Vol. 53, November, 1917, pp. 66-7.

In the following essay, Sampson comments that A Bookman's Budget is not what the reader might expect, but he finds the volume excellent nonetheless.

Mr. Austin Dobson and Mr. E. V. Lucas may now be described without offence as institutions. We know what to expect of them, and we ask for nothing better than to go on getting the expected. They are some of the excellent people we are sure about. We should feel horribly disconcerted if, some day, we were to drop five shillings into the Lucas slot and pull out an "Eighteenth-century Vignette," or to find ourselves receiving an "England Day by Day" from Mr. Dobson's Hepplewhite cabinet. Mr. Dobson does perhaps surprise us for a moment in the present volume, which we open expecting to find a collection of papers in his well-known manner...