predecessors, except, perhaps, in the fact that there is naturally
a slightly-increased difficulty in finding sufficient celebrities. When it suits to caricature a man, he is caricatured ; when it suits to give him some such face and figure as nature has given him, he has his due.
Mr. Warton, M.P. for Bridport, is perhaps the funniest of the cari- catures, as the account of his return for that place is certainly the most minute and, we may venture to say, the most edifying of the personal notices. One of the smart things in the book is the remark about a certain peer that "be is reported to have the gift of tongues, but does not exhibit it in public." Six ladies head the list, the sixth being Mrs. Georgina Weldon ; there is one sovereign, Alexander III. of Russia ; two Princes, Count Gleichen and the Dec d'Aumale. Then follows a list of fifteen statesmen, and another of " Men of the Day." In the former we find Mr. Broadhurst, Sir Donald Carrie, and Pro- fessor Thorold Rogers, besides Mr. Wartou aforesaid.
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