' The Entr'acte Annual for 1896 is, as in previous
years, compiled by Mr. W H. Combes, and illustrated by Mr. Alfred Bryan. This fact is in itself a guarantee of the letterpress being lively and varied, and the illustrations being humorous with a strong ten- dency to farcicality. Perhaps the best of the contents of the Annual are the editor's " Hoist with his own Petard" and " The Song-writer as Murderer,"—an account by Mr. Richard Morton of certain negotiations carried on between Mr. Fox, the com- poser of "Over the Garden Wall," and Arthur Lefroy, who killed Mr. Gould on the Brighton Railway. Mr. John Hollingshead is rather disappointing in " Mollycoddling Regulations and Milk- sop Principles." He has by no means a bad cause to advocate, but he puts too much energy of language of the mere hair-tearing sort into his advocacy.
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