28 JANUARY 1871, Page 24

ice: a Southern Night's Dream. (Sampson Low and Co.) — Why a,

number of stories, more or less romantic or horrible, about Portuguese princes or princesses, should be called "Ice" it is not very easy to see. The writer is supposed, we imagine, to suffer from night-mare conse- quent upon having swallowed a quantity of snow—hence the stories. These stories are not ill-told, but there is certainly something of an eccentric look about the book,—and the Latin and Greek quotations are hopelessly insane. Here is one which we offer to our younger readers as a puzzle. Map ilkalEOPCOM DAME/. He who deciphers that deserves a prize.