2 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 13

In Many Queer Streets. By Colebrook Rowe. (Digby and Long.)

—There is something of the/ autobiographical in these sketches, and something also that is evidently portraiture from the life. It wants the completeness that art gives. The scene is sometimes in England, sometimes in Australia ; then we are taken to a hydropathic establishment in Ireland, and introduced to a very strange set of people. Mr. "Colebrook Rowe "—antonym or pseudonym?—draws his pictures with a quite uncompromising fidelity to Nature.