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By Peter Finley Dunn. Price, not stated. Pp. 212 and 239, with no illustrations. R. H. Russell and Charles Scribner's Sons, 597-599 Fifth Ave., New York, 1901 and 1910.

William B. Bean, M.D., Reviewer

Arch Intern Med. 1962;110(1):135.

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Occasionally a satirist, using dialect, whimsey, or dialogue, may be able to point the harsh finger of criticism at his contemporaries in a manner the more formal critic dares not do or at least rarely does for any sustained period of time. At a time when the Irish invasion of the northeastern United States was making a powerful mark on the physical, social, mental, and other aspects of this part of the world, Peter Finley Dunn, masquerading as a shrewd and observant Irishman, wrote a series of essays which were collected and published in many volumes. He was able to cast the barbed harpoon of criticism at the ponderous behavior and misbehavior of a raw and often raucous democracy without getting jerked out of the whale boat. Occasionally in secondhand book stores I pick up one of the Mr. Dooley books. They give a nostalgic pleasure, displaying the attitudes and . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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