Gross was one of the geniuses of American cartooning. This satire of the then popular novel-in-wood-cuts is a masterpiece of inspired silliness, one of the first graphic novels. Under the title "Hearts of Gold" it was reprinted in an expurgated paperback version. Presumably this Dover edition restores the censored sequence in a Harlem night club

A collection of newspaper colmns written in the early 20th century that often seem to make no sense at all until read aloud. Teeming with insights of everyday life under almost poverty conditions, these stories have a natural rhythm that pullyou along as you read aloud....GREAT GREAT FUNNY BOOK THAT HAD ME WITH TEARS IN MY EYES WHEN i THOUGHT OF IT LATER.

Sotch nize book Mr. Gross he wrote, witt de chokes and witt de cartunz. It giffs witt stories from all de pipple in de tenements: witt Mrs. Feitelbaum witt Looy, dot dope, witt Isidore (SMACK!) Is also witt de ferry storiz from Nize Baby itting opp all de oatmill!

(Gross was one of the most popular cartoonists and humorists of his day. This old book is funny stuff from a time when dialect humor was funnier than it is now! Orig. pub'd by Grosset & Dunlap, 1926.)