6 DECEMBER 1884, Page 20

We have received a fourteenth edition of The Bon Gaultier

Ballads 4131ackwood and Sons). Is it not about time, we are inclined to ask, that something about their authorship should be prefixed P They are certainly one of the greatest successes of the age, in their way, and it is not every one, now that so many of the generation that witnessed their first appearance have passed away, that knows to whose pen they are doe.