The text of these idiosyncratic volumes consists mainly of commentary on public persons and events, some contemporaneous, some historical. Occasionally this commentary is couched in straightforward prose; more often, it appears as verse, as mock dialogue, or in the form of stories, jokes, and riddles. How much of this material is original to the books' creator is unclear. Some of it is in Irish dialect. The author's world-view is deeply cynical, and his commentary tends to be acerbic, attacking and mocking a substantial range of targets: England, first and foremost; American political establishments of both parties, from the Pittsburgh wards to the White House (Wilson, Harding, Hoover); military establishments; wealthy capitalists like Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, and J. P. Morgan; the temperance movement and Prohibition; and many others. Some persons and subjects are treated sympathetically, even reverentially: Ireland and the Free State; figures from the left like Mother Jones, Debs, and Pancho Villa; Native Americans. The textual entries, printed in an extremely fine hand, are often accompanied by drawings. These are mostly portraits, apparently traced or otherwise copied in pencil from newspapers and finished in ink and crayon. The faces of the author's villains are typically colored yellow, to mark them as "yellow dogs" (8013-3-B, 1r). Heroes are colored naturalistically. There are also allegorical figures, caricatures, and images of other kinds, many of them colored and some quite appealing. The books are densely illustrated, with perhaps 750 drawings in the three volumes. The text runs to perhaps 100,000 words. Ellipses in dating suggest that these three volumes were but a part of the author's total output. The books are informed and witty and, at the same time, an exercise in obsession, evident both in their eccentric graphic qualities and in their dark and repetitious social commentary.