24 JUNE 1893, Page 14

East Anglia. By S. Ewing Ritchie. (Jerrold and Sons.)—Mr. Ritchie

tells a variety of stories, drawn from his own experience and from various other sources, personal and literary, about men, women, and plaCes in East Anglia. As usual, there are in this book, as in others of the kind, bona guaedam, male plum. One of the most amusing is the account of Mr. Cunningham of Pakefield, who, after murmuring something about the study being on fire, proceeded to read a long chapter and make a long exhortation. By the time these were concluded, there was no mistake about the fact. Mr. Cunningham explained : "Yes, I saw it was a little on fire, but I opened the window on leaving the room."