Pages from an Adventurous Life. By "Dick Donovan" (J. E.
Preston bluddeck). (T. Werner Laurie. 16s. net.)—Mr. Muddock's first three chapters are largely occupied with experiences in India, Australia, and the Far East, but most of his volume is taken up with experiences, literary and personal, in England. One of the earliest of them, dating now more than forty years back, was the acquaintance of Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne). One of the most amusing things in the book is the dialogue between Ward and Henry J. Byron re an imaginary brother of Byron, whom the American declared he had eaten. Amusing things, indeed, are fairly plentiful in Mr. Muddock's pages. He falls a good deal of the space himself, but how, it may be asked, can this be helped ? An autobiography must have the arras occur pretty frequently. We never find him anything but kindly.
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