Ray and Fresh Air. By Eden Philpotts. (Trischler and Co.)
—There is some amusement to be got out of this book, but hardly as much as one might expect to find in nearly three hundred pages. It purports to be the history of an angling expedition taken by the narrator of the story and his brother, a doctor. He is an angler of the "chuck and chance it" kind, as a stranger graphically describes it, and meets with curious experiences. Now and then he lapses into something of a more serious kind.— Another volume of a humorous sort, where, however, the fun is sometimes mixed up with very grim tragedy, is In a Canadian Canoe, and other Stories, by Barry Pain (Henry and Co.), a volume of "The Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour." The "Canadian Canoe" has nothing to do with Canada, as might be supposed.
" Canadian " is a particular kind of canoe, and the writer is supposed to meditate while he navigates it. The "Celestial Grocery" is, perhaps, the best thing in the work, a really quaint fancy, with no little meaning in it. The author, it is quite possible, has a career as.a humorist before him.
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