Josiah Allen’s Wife Goes a Visiting

International Religious Liberty Association · Chicago, Illinois · Jul 5, 1900

FromThe American Sentinel, The Sentinel of Liberty, Vol. 15, No. 26.

Josiah Allen’s Wife Goes a Visiting.

“Josiah Allen’s Wife” has sharpened up her pen again, and with her patient, amiable, unobtrusive husband “goes a-visitin’,” for the Ladies’ Home Journal. Every one, knowing that Josiah’s wife is “obsarvant” and “critikal,” can anticipate that in laying bare the shortcomings and mistakes of those she visits she will have abundant opportunity for the exercise of her quaint humor and homely philosophy. In the course of her “visitin’” she finds many things to set right, and there is a definite purpose underlying all her sketches. “Josiah and I Go a-Visitin’” is perhaps the best series that Mrs. Holly has ever written—superior even to her description of the Centennial which established her reputation as a humorist-philosopher of the first order. The first sketch of this new series will be published in the August Journal.