Publisher's Synopsis
MR. ARTHUR RACKHAM's drawings make The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch a book worth having. We seem to recognize in this artist a comic draughtsman of unusual merit, who deserves to have letterpress worthy of him as soon as may be. Mr. Adair Fitzgerald, the author of this book, has good humour and high spirits in abundance, and now and again hits on a diverting idea; but, in the main, his nonsense is not of a high order. The influence of the Alice books is too apparent in places, especially when his fun takes the form of verbal quibbles. None the less, there is more intelligence in the pages of The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch than in many a more pretentious volume, and we have enjoyed it. But Mr. Rackham delights us positively.
--The Academy, Volume 50
