6 OCTOBER 1906, Page 37

Motor Maniacs. By Lloyd Osbourne. (Chatto and Windus 3s. 6d.)—These

little stories are frank extravaganzas founded on the mania for motor-cars, which burns, apparently, even more fiercely in America than in England. The stories will be extraordinarily irritating to any one who is not familiar with the idioms of the "garage." but the motorist will feel a certain pleasure in seeing the language of sentiment translated into the language of petrol. The book is full of humour and energy, and, though it is not of course serious literature, the reader will always have a kindness for any work from the pen of that one of the authors of "The Wrong Box" who was not "old enough to be ashamed of himself."