Sketches Beyond the Sea. By Franc B. Wilkie, Chicago.—This is
a volume of reprinted articles from the Chicago Times. The author seems to have taken things a good deal too much for granted during his stay in England, and to have been of a confiding turn of mind. His notions of London " celebrities " are funny; he selects such very odd people as specimens of " leaders " of the worlds of literature, art, and fashion, respectively, and he is singularly in- accurate in his statements. No doubt, however, this sort of thing does very well in Chicago, and, indeed, is not unprofitable nearer home. Readers who dislike personalities, and do not care for gossip about people whose works they road or whose speeches they hear, will probably find the book vulgar. It has but little of the liveliness and humour by which American inquisitiveness is often relieved.
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