Selections from the British Satirists. With an Introductory Essay by
Cecil Headlam. (F. E. Robinson.)—The British satirists cover so large a field that they cannot be adequately represented in a volume of this size, especially as prose as well as verse is included. Still, those who are interested in satire may find it worth while to turn these pages, for they will encounter there plenty of pointed wit. The selections from Churchill hardly give one a sufficient sense of that writer's venom and vigour. It is a pity that the editor did not include the truly marvellous lines describing the Italians who swarmed in London at the end of the eighteenth century.
Two handsome volumes, well bound and well illustrated, and belonging respectively to the very useful series, " Biblioth&pie des tcoles et des Families "- and "Nouvelle Collection pour la Jeunesse " (Hachette et Cie.), are Les Merveilles COlestes, par Camille Flammarion ; and Monnaie de Singe, par Madame P. de Nanteuil, the illustrations being from drawings by A. Paris.
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