[In the following review, the critic maintains that “this book is a boon for everyone in these troubled times.”]

With 60 of the late versifier's gems of acuity, this book [A Penny Saved is Impossible] is a boon for everyone in these troubled times. Nobody but Nash could express so pungently such thoughts, not only on the impossibility of saving a penny but of finding the silver lining, putting up with the chicanery of politicos, bearing it when things go right for the wrong people and on other ills the flesh is heir to. Among the best of the genius's creations, the selections here will help readers laugh, however ruefully, at shared pains. They may even help us, as the poet advised, to understand that “Humanity must continue to follow the sun around / And accept the eternal run-around. / Well, and if that be the case, why come on humanity! / So long as it is our fate to be irked all our life let us just keep / our heads up and take our irking with insouciant / urbanity.”