The Gallynipper in Yankeeland. By Himself. (Tinsley Brothers.)— We have
not the advantage of knowing what a gallynipper is, but this slim volume affords internal evidence that a great deal of vulgarity, slang, and impudent imitation of certain second-rate American humourists whose own genuine jokes are about as much as we can bear, goes to the composition of that mysterious being. We have not the slightest wish to discover the secret, nor do we think many readers will be tempted to follow the fortunes of a person who thinks it funny to write as follows :—" There was a sweet and verdant youth, of many tender summers. And he had a mother-in-law that was to be, and she vexed him and he vexed her, and life was a vexatious vanity. And he fled away from her on the hop, as the flea goeth, and made a long journey, and sought comfort in a foreign land."
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