26 MARCH 1898, Page 27

Humours of History : Eighteen Centuries of Laughter. By Arthur

Morland. (Roxburghe Press.)—Some of the drawings in this little picture.book are distinctly clever and amusing, notably No. 60, the "Dismissal of the Foreign Barons" by Stephen in 1154. One old friend, the cloaked conspirator, is well to the fore throughout.