20 AUGUST 1864, Page 24

Crinoline in its Bissextile Phases. By Leichter Hock. (Robert Hard-

wicke.)—Those who like a laborious joke on a well-worn theme will be pleased with this production. There are original compositions and parodies, and mock commentaries on the classics and nursery rhymes— and in all Mr. Leichter Hock has kept perfectly clear of sense. Perhaps we give a fair specimen of his wit in recording the fact that he "thinks the lightest possible Rhein Wein of himself."