SOURCE: Review of Further Experiences of an Irish R. M., by Somerville and Ross. The Nation 87, no. 2258 (8 October 1908): 340.

In the following review of Further Experiences of an Irish R. M., the critic, lamenting the tedious and dreary nature of most fiction, welcomes the work as comic literature.

In these days, when fiction in general is either purposeful or futile to the verge of tears, one welcomes a book whose aim, avowed and accomplished, is a hearty and wholesome laugh. In these short stories [Further Experiences of an Irish R.M.], there is neither the tragedy of overwhelming fate nor of the writer's incompetence, but the same comedy, pungent as a turf fire, that insured to Flurry Knox and his genial biographer upon their first appearance a true Irish constancy and warmth of welcome for the future. The richness and diversity of Hibernian idiom is worthy of attention, independent...