6 JULY 1901, Page 35

Punch's Holiday Book. Edited by E. T. Reed. (Punch Office.

is. net.) —This is somewhat diseppointing on the whole. We do not look for a sentimental novelette in Punch. Hence " The Schoolmaster and Felicia" is out of place. We are not always better off when we come to the humour. Even Mr. Reed is not

at his beet. He cannot help being fanny, lent then he repeats himself. "A Little Ray of Sunshine" is a good travesty of the patent-medicine advertisements, which must be making the fortune of the evening papers. Another craze is happily hit off in " Ask Me No More," beginning with :-

" Pray do not ask me why is Charing Cross,

And who taught Putney Bridge, and Waterloo) Such painful riddles only me= a loss Of hair 'twixt me and you."