From Life. By Wyhert Reeve. (F. V. White.)—Mr. Reeve, who
describes himself as "Comedian," and whose name will be well known to English playgoers of a certain standing (he now resides in Australia), has put together in a pleasant volume many interesting reminiscences of his own experiences, and of his friends and associates, besides giving things that he has heard from others. Among the celebrities of the past, we find Edmund Kean; among those with whom this generation has been familiar, Sothern and Wilkie Collins. He is especially appreciative in describing the latter, whose relations with the stage seem to have been most amicable. Charles Dickens is another of his subjects, described in a paper called " Round about Gadshill ;" but to apply to the novelist his own enlogium of Maclise seems a little extravagant. " Ghosts " contains some curious experiences, but only one of his own experience, and that not a very remarkable one. Altogether this is a very readable volume.
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