Trying to Find Europe. By " Jimmy Brown." Edited by W.
L. Alden. (Sampson Low and Co.) —" Jimmy Brown " is of the type of the " bad boy " of American fiction, the sort of boy into which children of the " Helen's Babies " kind may be presumed to grow up. This young gentleman is placed with a brother-in-law whom he has conciliated in his peculiar way, while his father and mother take a tour in Europe. The brother-in-law does not appreciate his humour, and, accordingly, he and a young Irish friend run away and " try to find Europe." They go a little out of their way, as was to be expected, but they succeed after various amusing adventures. The book is full of eminently characteristic American humour, a sort of thing which we do not seem able to produce on this side of the Atlantic. It must be read aloud, to do it full justice. This done by a sympathetic reader, there will be no lack of laughter.
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