6 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 23

The Great Grundy Romance. Illustrated by John Brown Smith. (Lockwood

and Co.)—A piece of wild humour which will cost tho un- wary reader many a groan. The parodies of James, Bulwer Lytton, itc., are by no means happy ; the whole fun consists in telling an absurd story of the nineteenth century in the conventional language novelists put into the months of people of the sixteenth ; and the tale, such as it is, is incomplete. The pictures are fairly good parodies of the manner of some of the most popular of our illustrators of novels.