15 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 41

Comedy and Acrostics. By the Earl of Iddesleigh. (Eland Brothers,

Exeter. Is. 6d. net.)—Acrostics have gone nude- servedly out of fashion, and we can promise anyone who takes up Lord Iddesleigh's collection some enjoyable moments. The little book also serves almost as an anthology of light verse, for it consists entirely of quotations from the English comic poets, from Hood, or even earlier, down to Gilbert.