Toil After Supper. By Jerome K. Jerome. (The Loadonhall •
Press.)—Mr. Jerome seems to have attained the happy position of the favourite comedian who cannot move without exciting roars of laughter. We must own that to us his fun is not particularly amusing ; but the public, which has taken more than a hundred editions of one of his books, seems to estimate it differently. (Possibly " the hundred and nineteenth edition " prefixed to the advertisement of this book is itself a joke. We never know when our author is making fun. Is it his fun or the publisher's when, in a list of publications, wo are specially referred to a page that does not exist P Of course, everything is possible to a " chartered libertine" of this kind.) If it had not been for Mr. Jerome's reputation as a humorist, we should have said that this book is made up of about the very thinnest materials that we ever saw made to do duty for the purpose.
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