Three Weeks at Mopetown. By Percy Fitzgerald. (Henry and Co.)—This
volume, one of the " Whitefriars Library of Wit and Humour," is certainly entertaining. That being so, what more does the reader want ? One can hardly say that it is ever witty ; it is only occasionally even humorous. Yet we read it, though possibly protesting that it is hardly worth reading. " Mopetown " is a hydropathic establishment to which the narrator of the story, an overworked literary man, is sent by his physician. He meets a very queer set of people there, and finds himself involved in many agitating questions of domestic politics. A comic curate, whose relations with his rector are more than strained, an impe- cunious Home-rule M.P., a purseproud knight, a scheming governess,—these are among the persona; of the drama at Mope- town. One or two of the chapters are like patches, motley rather than purple, which Mr. Fitzgerald has sewn on to set-off his book. Pages 88-93, relating to the wine-circulars with which most of us are pestered, is obviously so.
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