24 OCTOBER 1868, Page 24

Time, Faith, and Energy: Passages in the Lift of Geoffrey

Waller. (Skeet.)—Why the first of these titles should have been given to this book we cannot imagine. For the second, there is so much reason as this, that Geoffrey Waller is a lay figure which the author dresses np for a certain purpose, and which serves that purpose well enough. Now this purpose seems to be that the public should read certain articles which the conductors of magazines have refused to give it the oppor- tunity of reading, or which the author does not choose to submit to their criticism. Geoffrey Waller goes np to London to make his fortune by literature. He contributes with others to something like an annual. We have what he writes and what they write. Now this passes all endurance. If we have to read what is not in the magazines as well as what is, we are lost.