3 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 45

Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse. By Leopold

Wagner. (Warne and Co.)—This is a " third series," so that the compiler comes before the public with the prestige of previous success. The extracts number some forty in all, and seem well chosen for their purpose. We have an impression that there is rather a want of extracts not simply humorous, but such as combine the serious and the gay. Reciters and readers are tempted by the ready acceptance which the comic finds from the average audience, to lose the opportunities of doing them some little good.