Mores Ridiculi. Depicted by J. E. Rogers. (Macmillan.)—Those who remember
Mr. Rogers' Ridicula Rediviva will be glad to see a continua- tion of the series. The twelve pictures of the volume before us are on a smaller scale than are those in the Ridicula, but are not, we think, the worse for that. They are distinguished by the same brilliant and harmonious colouring, the same careful drawing, and the same propriety and finish of detail. The humour of illustrating nonsensical rhymea
with the grave artistic accuracy which gives most conscientiously all the minutiva of architecture is indeed humour of a quidt sort, but in really good drawings, such as will bear examination, it retains a certain freshness, and amuses as much the twentieth time as it does the first. Of the twelve pictures we prefer the first, though it is somewhat crowded ; how could it be otherwise, when the artist seeks to put into one cartoon all the incidents of the great drama Of " Sing a song of sixpence"? But tho faces have more expression in them than usual, while the countenances which Mr. Rogers gives to his quaint figures are commonly a little flat.
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