24 AUGUST 1895, Page 25

The Children of Men. By William R. H. Trowbridge, seri.

(Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—These are sketches of West Indian life and West Indian character, mostly of a disagreeable kind. Very likely Mr. Trowbridge is holding up the mirror to Nature. We can only say for ourselves and advise our readers that it is better not to look.