21 MAY 1864, Page 22

The Modern Hudibras. A Poem in three cantos. By George

Linley. (John Camden Hotten.)—An account of the less creditable side of London life in rather slip-shod verse, and in a tone of banter. So far as the author treats of mere follies this is very well, but he often describes vice, and that should be dealt with in sterner tones or not at all