January 2, 1890 Thursday
January 2 Thursday – Desmond O’Brien reviewed CY in the London weekly Truth, p.25, calling it,
…a bizarre book, full of all kinds of laughable and delightful incongruities — the most striking of its incongruities, however, being unconscious, grim, and disenchanting…. His fooling is admirable, and his preaching is admirable, but they are mutually destructive [Tenney 19].