The newspaper comments given herein are but two out of several hundred collected, yet these show the reception given the articles as they appeared, by newspapers throughout the state.

Parker New Era:   Those pen-portraits by Major O. W. Coursey, on "Who's Who in South Dakota," running in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader, are attracting wide notice and very favorable comment. The pen-portraiture of former Senator Kittredge, Congressman Burke and Senator Crawford have already appeared. We will watch the Argus-Leader for further pen-portraits of the large galaxy of South Dakota's illustrious sons.

Vermillion Republican:   "Who's Who in South Dakota," is being made known from time to time by O. W. Coursey, the well-known literateur, in the Daily Argus-Leader. He has already listed in his repertoire such celebrites as Senator Kittredge and State Superintendent-elect Lawrence, and will include others equally notable in due season. Coursey's contributions always are readable when reduced to print.

These playful sketches were first written for mere pastime while I was sitting around depots waiting for delayed trains and while riding along on the cars. They were struck off in rough lead-pencil form, and not a single one of them was ever re-written, in whole or in part, before being sent to press. They have therefore, been reproduced in the same crude form in which they originally appeared, with but very few minor alterations.

It will at once become evident to any person who may read one or more of them that they were written exclusively for newspaper use; hence, the unusual amount of freedom in both thought and style. To convert them now into a stiff, labored style, for book purposes, would be to rob them of much of their cheerfulness and reality. They are merely off-hand literary sketches of various persons' lives, written in an "impromptu" manner, just as though one had spoken them without previous meditation. The same playful spirit was breathed into them that a cartoonist would impart to a caricature sketch of some popular person, during one of his chalk-talks. Any "re-touching" which might now be given to them could but detract from their original charm, if any they possessed.