Lyre and Lancet. By F. Anstey. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Mr.
Anstey has given us an entertaining "Comedy of Errors!' Mr. Undershell, a minor poet, known, or not known, by the name of Clarion Blair, is invited by Sir Rupert and Lady Culverin to meet the Countess of Cantire, a lady of advanced views ; at the same time Sir Rupert has sent for Mr. James Spurrell, a veterinary surgeon, to look at a horse which is, he fears, incurably lame. The two come down in the same train, get somehow mixed up together, the confusion being worse confounded through the co- incidence that Clarion Blair's poem bears the title of "Andromeda," and Mr. Spurrell has become famous as the owner of a bull-pup of that name. The "vet." finds himself in the drawing-room, the bard in the housekeeper's room. There are love-affairs, more or teas serious, going on, and the drama moves merrily forward. We do not know that it is actually up to Mr. Anstey's highest level, but it is distinctly good.
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