6 JUNE 1868, Page 25

The Silver Trumpet and other Allegories. By E. H. (Warne.)—E.

H. mixes up fact and figure very strangely. A lady gives her little boy a silver trumpet which has the art of speaking texts, and sends him from her drawing-room—say, in Belgravo Square—to the City of the Great King. The author, who seems to live in the country, ought to know better than to talk of plucking up the rod poppies, dc., out of a field of wheat, and then sowing fresh seed in it.