15 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 13

More Fables in Slang. By George Ade. (C. Arthur Pearson.

2s. 6d.)—These fables are clever, a little difficult to understand now and then—a fable ought always to be lucidly clear—and not particularly agreeable to read. Didithe writer calculate the effect which two hundred odd pages without a single thing that is not ignoble in them would have on the, reader? Not unfrequentlY he enlists our sympathies. "The Honest Money-maker" is certainly a fable of this kind. " The Wife of the Respected Farmer was the only Work Animal around the Place that was not Kept Fat and Sleek. But, of course, Henry did not count on Belling -her." That is forcibly put.