'Juice Dom= : Essays on Home Life. By Frederick Perry,
M.A. (Stt:ahan.)—This is one of the books to which the best critical test that can be applied is that very simple one,—is it readable ? We may answer that it is se, at least to all who can relish what is not very highly flavoured. Mr. Perry gossips—not to use the word disrespectfully—in a serious and didactic style. He is sometimes trite, sometimes a lilt% tedious—but has not the reader a remedy always at hand ?—but always sensible and kindly. He quotes plentifully, as much from classical authors as from any, and is always accurate, and not unfrequently happy. In humour, which an essayist, whether on gay subjects or grave, ought to have, he is deficient. On the whole, and Mr. Perry must consider that we are paying him no inconsiderable compliment, we would class him with Mr. Jacox, but we are bound in honesty to add, longo intervallo.
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