information, adventure, and comic illustrations. A good example sense of
superiority over their " von-less" neighbours are a flue of the knowledge that should be given to young people, and of the study. Both of them make one exception to their aristocratic way in which it should be conveyed, is " The Most Marvellous prejudices in favour of the plebeian schoolmaster ; and the Drill in the World," which, it may be necessary to explain, gives contrast between the manner in which both love and both an account, not of anything connected with the discipline of either desert him is well drawn. The schoolmaster himself is hazy the Army or the reserve forces, but of the complex boring-machine and conventional, but his mother is charming. Her indis- with which Nature has endowed the great ichneumon-fly,— criminate but kindly contempt for the noble sisters whom her Fiction still absorbs most of London Society, and unfortunately it son honours alternately with his attentions, and her failure to is not now relieved, as it used to be, by illustrations. The see to which of the two his love is really given, and to which his general articles are improving. Mr. W. W. Fenn writes agreeably promise, load her to no further conclusion than that he had
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