Sme book reviews: "Mr. Ade shows all the qualities of a successful novelist." ......Chicago Tribune " Artie is a character, and George Ade has limned him deftly as well as amusingly. Under his rollicking abandon and reck- lessness we are made to feel the real sense and sensitiveness, and the wordly wisdom of a youth whose only language is that of a street-gamin. As a study of the peculiar type peculiar type chosen, it is both typical and inimitable. ........Detroit Free Press " Well-meaning admirers have compared Artie to Chimmie Fadden, but Mr. Townsend's creation, excellent as it is, cannot be said to be entirely free from exaggeration. The hand of Chimmie Fadden's maker is to be discerned at times. And just here Artie is particularly strong he is always Artie, and Mr. Ade is always concealed, and never obtrudes his personality." .......Chicago Post " George Ade is a writer, the direct antithesis of Stephen Crane. In 'Artie' he has given the world a story of the streets at once wholesome, free and stimulating. The world is filled with people like 'Artie Blanchard' and his girl, 'Manie Carroll', and the story of their lives, their hopes, and dreams, and loves, is immeasurably more wholesome than all the stories like 'George's Mother' that could be writen by an army of the writers who call themselves realists. .......Editorial, Albany Evening Journal .............................................................................. Excerpt: It was not a strange thing, after all the growing friendship between Miller and Artie. There is a common theory, and a theory at best, that "birds of a feather flock together", and this may mean that the human being selects for his companions the people who are much like himself in tastes, habits and aspirations. Nevertheless, a South Side man, who has written a large book intended to be a guide to happiness and sold by subscription only, claims that a tall man should marry a short woman, a blonde should select a brunette, the quiet man should choose for his partner a vivacious woman and the intellectual giant should give the preference to a house- keeper or a cook. He points out the obvious disadvantages that would result were an artist to be tied up with an art critic, and depicts the misery obtaining in that household every member of which wishes to do all the talking. Miller and Artie got along famously together. Miller was the listener and Artie was the entertainer. Miller read books and Artie read the town. Miller secretly believed that Artie was a superficial young man, but he had to admire his candor and his worldly cleverness. Artie liked Miller because he was a font of sympathy and accepted a confidence in a serious way. Miller knew only one kind of people, and these were the three- button-cutaway, standing-collar, derby-hat people of his own reputable station in life.
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