Belgravia, for August, (Chatto and Windus), has an entertaining account,
by Mr. R. A. Proctor, of the well known "Lunar Hoax," which is extremely well worth reading. Mr. Charles Heade must be amused at his meagre and trivial contribution having any importance attached to it, even in an advertisement Again we must complain of the illus- trations. One of those in Belgravia Holiday Number, of "The Life Brigade," is, however, the best of its kind this month. To that number there are many contributors, including Miss Braddon and Mr. T. A. Trollope, but Mr. G. A. Sala's is the only notable article. His account of "Brighton out of the Season" has some really funny things in it. We should like to quote his account of his "Down-stairs Walk." But Mr. Sala is all wrong about the "original Brandy-balls," whom he describes, "with his spare limbs, and lean, parchment-hued face, his long locks," &c. The friend of our youth, of everybody's youth, the original, one-armed "Brandy-balls," was the predecessor of Mr. Sala's friend. This is -t bad :—" The season, is when everybody is there,' and when you meal., in the coarse of every hour's walk, at least twenty people whom you hate, or who hate you,—an infallible sign of an abnor- mal affluence of everybody to a particular spot"
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