26 AUGUST 1911, Page 23

What a Life ! (Methuen and Co. is.) is a

most diverting absurdity on wholly original lines. The joint authors—" E. V. L." and "G. M."—have taken an ingenious selection of illustrations from the General Catalogue of a famous monster shop as the basis of a " deeply moving human drama." The result is out- rageously comic: only a person of iron self-control could read these pages with dignity.