22 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 20

Stuff and Nonsense. By A. B. Frost. (Nimmo.)—It is always

difficult to say whether nonsense is or is not too nonsensical or nonsensical enough. The drawings in the highly exaggerated French style, and the verses, which are decidedly feeble, come, we suppose, from America, as we see a sign-post "To Boston" in the one, and the expression "a burial casket" in the other. One of the best of the sketches is that of the intelligent artist who thinks that he ought to know how a horse goes, with his conventional sketch of a gallop, and the instantaneous photographs of the movement, somewhat caricatured below. But we must own that much of the book does not forcibly appeal to our sense of the humorous.