Everyday People. By Charles Dana Gibson. (John Lane. 20s.)—Here we
have another volume—the ninth, we see—of Mr. Gibson's social studies. A considerable number of them are occupied -with what we may call 'The Snob's Progress," though "snob" is not exactly the word for Mr. Tagg. His social efforts, successes, and failures ; his plunge into politics, which he finds good reasons for thinking will not advance him in society ; his domestic trials—his daughter absolutely refuses to marry a nobleman, and has the bad taste to decline upon an American— these and other events in his career are admirably portrayed. But all the book is very good, though we must own that the descriptive letterpress is not always intelligible to us. Perhaps the very best of all is the first,—" The Champion." The great man is walking with a crowd of lads behind and before him. Nothing could be better than the variety of their expressions, all full of admiration and awe, all alike but all different. It is a triumph of its kind.
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