Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of Bubbleland
PRESS NOTICES
CLEVELAND PLAINDEALER. “Ingersoll Lockwood, who delighted and bewildered readers young and old with those queer extravaganzas, ‘Little Baron Trump’ and ‘Little Giant Boab,’ has perpetrated another joke of the same kind in his ‘Extraordinary Experiences of Little Captain Doppelkop on the Shores of Bubbleland.’ The boy, who was twins in himself, a sort of juvenile Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has a lot of surprising and comical adventures that are narrated by himself—or perhaps we ought to say more truthfully, though ungrammatically, ‘themself’—with delightful simplicity.”
BOSTON HOME JOURNAL. “For its quaint conceptions it has never been surpassed, if equalled, by anything of the kind. The idea of creating a character like that of Little Captain Doppelkop was a great stroke of genius. The adventures of the Little Captain in Bubbleland are of the most marvellous character, and constantly lead from one surprise to another still more surprising, and they are related with a sparkle and naturalness that keep the reader’s high interest continually on the topmost round of expectancy. If Mr. Lockwood can beat his own record on this extravaganza, then he will indeed stand the champion imaginator of the world.”
NORTHWESTERN MAGAZINE. “Ingersoll Lockwood has quite outdone himself this time. The trouble is there are 287 large pages of pure enjoyment and fun for your open-mouthed boys, and the small ones won’t let you stop till you’ve read them every one, not to speak of letting them take the book at every page or two to look at the droll pictures which Clifton Johnson has so fitted to the text. ‘Little Captain Doppelkop’ was two children rolled into one, and their adventures in Glaucus’ Gluepot, Bubbleland, the Castle of Indolence, and elsewhere—all kept even poor old me interested. The book is bound prettily in gray-green, touched up with darker and gold; just the book for your boy’s Xmas tree.”
THE HOUSEKEEPER. “‘Little Captain Doppelkop,’ being the extraordinary experiences of the oddest and most amusing little fellow that ever made or found his way from wonderful babyhood and its mysteries out into the big, crazy world. Ingersoll Lockwood, the author of this book, makes it his business to stow away a lot of sense into a hundred small packets of nonsense, so that the boy or girl who reads the three hundred pages that tell all about the impossible absurdities of the little Captain will be the happier and the wiser.”
BOSTON COURIER. “This we confess to finding one of the most amusing and ingenious books of its kind that has been written in our time. It is spontaneous and sparkling, and there is throughout an unfailing succession of novel surprises such as only the most fantastically fertile fancy could have devised. The central idea, that of the boy who was really two persons, is a capital one, good enough to make the fortune of any book, and it is capitally carried out.”
NEW LONDON TELEGRAPH. “‘Little Captain Doppelkop’ is an extravaganza as curious as was ever conceived and depicted in prose and picture. Ingersoll Lockwood showed in ‘Little Baron Trump’ how possible it was to be a delightful yet perfectly unobjectionable Munchausen. ‘Little Captain Doppelkop,’ from beginning to end, is filled with entrancing and absorbing adventures, and the facile pencil fully supplements the pen. No such work has been attempted by American writers, and the great success which attended Mr. Ingersoll in his former achievement cannot fail to be repeated now. The spirit, energy, and simple way in which the narrative seems to hug the possible render it so effective that whoever takes it up finds himself turning page after page until he unwillingly comes to the last.”
BOSTON GLOBE. “‘Little Captain Doppelkop’—why ‘Doppelkop’ it is necessary to read—is bound to be a tremendous success, and deserves a place as a child’s classic with those which delighted our boyhood.”