17 DECEMBER 1864, Page 20

Every - Day Papers. By Andrew Halliday. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.) —These

papers have already appeared in All the Year Round and other

serials, and deserve to be republished. Such papers as the "Tragic Case of a Comic Writer," "My Pantomime," " Snobson's Experiences," have, light as they are, a humour that is sui generis, and the essay entitled "Shakespeare Not a Man of Parts" most deservedly attracted public attention when it first appeared. The more solid papers have also much merit, and Mr. Halliday refers with just pride to the fact that those which call attention to the advantages offered to working men by Mr. Gladstone's Post-Office Savings' Banks, and to the evils of ill-managed benefit societies, have been widely ciraulated and productive of no slight amount of good.