5 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 12

In and About Bohemia. By C. J. Wills. (Griffith, Ferran,

and Co.)—Amusing and witty, abounding in humorous situations and Bohemian characters, these short stories make capital reading for a few minutes. The fate of these products of a facile pen, written for daily and weekly papers, is a melancholy one,—they die at once, as no human being ever reads one twice. Even when brought together they suffer, and to peruse more than two or- three at a time is distinctly unfair. Mr. Wills has done so much good work of a more ambitious kind, that ephemeral literature, as short stories are, must inevitably suffer and fail to satisfy the reader, good of its kind though it may be.