Sir Bob, by S. de Madariaga (Routledge, 65.), tells who
Sir Bob was, and how he lost his commission as colonel of a regiment of Sea-Grenadiers, how he visited the Lord Privy Seal and received from him the seals of his new office of Keeper of Notting Hill Gate, and how, with the assistance of Ibis daughter Yram, he was present at the solution of the mystery of the Lad Broke Grove. His adventures, and the description of the people with whom he met, are curious and interesting. He goes a-fishing and catches a hat, is present at the feeding of the Seal itself (on meringues), recites the serpcntiferous and fancibolical ballad of the serpent Adven- turous, visits the Woo, which is a Zoo for imaginary animals, and meets there, among others, Europa's Bull, who had " keen rather sad of late, for he thinks that Europa is railer taken with the Golden Calf, who apparently is the mining animaL" The Lad (who Broke the Grove) outwits him and in the end is disclosed as the long lost son of Viscount Featherithwind, the Lord Privy Seal, and marries Yearn; and, to reverse the final compliment, may the author hive enjoyed writing it as much as the readers will 'enjoy reading it. Amen.
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