5 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 11

The Bull - Calf and other Tales. By A. B. Frost. (Nimmo.) —

Mr. Frost tells by the aid of a comic pencil and a sparing use of letterpress curious stories of misadventure,—how a philanthropist buys a calf because he thinks it cruel to make it into veal; how two elderly people seek to renew their childhood by rolling down a hill, and repent of their frolic ; and sundry other humorous tales. We do not always understand the fun—as, for instance, in the "Frontier Episode of the Next War "—but it is sometimes effective. Mr. Frost, we see, hails from America.