25 JANUARY 1902, Page 13

Bardell v. Pickwick. Edited by Percy Fitzgerald, M.A. (Elliot Stock.

6s)—Mr. Percy Fitzgerald has made a really amusing book out of this well-worn subject. He shows that there is plenty of good fun in it; that it is really tine satire on various legal peculiarities. The cap is fitted on to the right .head,—there is a portrait, actually communicated by a descendant of the " caricaturee," of " Mr. Justice Stareleigh." Altogether this is well worth reading.