Legends of Savage Life. By James Greenwood. With illustrations drawn
by Ernest Griset. (J. C. Hotten.)—Messrs. Greenwood and Griset have again combined to produce one of those volumes of ex- travagant fun in which most people, grown up or otherwise, find a strange fascination. The thin, lanky savages, in every posture of gro- tesqueness that the human fancy can imagine, are engaged in perpetual difficulties with one another and with all the wild creatures about them, comically wild of course. Mr. Greenwood's letterpress is very amusing at times, but we cannot imagine anybody reading it consecutively from beginning to end ; no one, however, who looks at any one of the illustrations will omit carefully to turn to all the rest. The idea seems taken from the French caricatures, but there is much more humour in these figures than in anything we have ever seen in the famous sheets of Charivari. There is no volume published at this season more irre- sistibly provocative of laughter.
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