A Bushel of 41feny Thoughts. By Wilhelm Busch. Described and
ornamented by Harry Rogers. (Low, Son, and Marston.)—The illus- trations in this work have appeared in a Munich comic paper, and are well known in South Germany. Their style of design is primitive, and the laugh is forced even when it is loudest. Take the case of the two boys who roll Diogenes and his tub down a hill, but are caught by two nails sticking out of the tub, and are squeezed flat beneath it. The bodies of the boys look exactly as if they had been ironed out. Again, tako the boy who goes skating on a very cold day, and is frozen into an ice figure. He is put at the fire to melt, but as his whole body has become ice, his whole body melts, and you see a stream of water, in a sort of human shape, with a nose and fingers, running about the floor. This kind of fun might suit grown-up Munichers, but it will be confined to English children.
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