STRAPHANGERS. By Arnold Palmer. (Selwyn and Blount. Os.)—" If the
people you meet in these pages were all put into one 'bus, the conductor would certainly congratulate himself on having so normal a complement, and on his escape, for one journey at least, from the usual eccentric bore." Mr. Palmer, who writes these words in a preface to twenty-live little talks with "ordinary Londoners " .--Engine Drivers, Mannequins, River Pilots—thus kindly assists us to review his own hook : he says just what we should have said ourselves. These " straphangers " are normal characters, and Mr. Palmer, who is a competent journalist, and can be entertaining, has interviewed them in a perfectly normal way. It is not quite so easy as it sounds.