14 MARCH 1896, Page 25

Conversations with an Uncle. By H. G. Wells. (John Lane.)—

These papers are certainly amusing, though the humour is not always, we think, in the best taste. Still it is humour,—and nowadays, when we are expected to laugh at so many quite impossible things, that is something. " Bcsgshot's Mural Decora- tions" is one of the best.