28 FEBRUARY 1903, Page 26

Wisdom While You Waif. (Isbister and Co. .1a.)—If our readers

want a good laugh, and one which has its inspiration in nothing that is either unhealthy, malicious, or cruel, they cannot do better than buy and read this delightful little book. It is one of the best " skits" published in the present generation. The plan of the work is to quiz the adver- tising system of the publishers of a noted Encyclopaedia ; but the chaff, which includes half the journalists and men of letters in London, is done with such obvious good temper that it is impossible that any one will be found to take it with a bad grace. However, we do not want to praise, but merely to tell the public where they may get a good laugh.