The Bookworm : an Illustrated Treasury of old-Timo Literature. (Elliot
Stack.)—Things new as well as old are to be found in this collection of literary scraps, criticism, and information. So far from being confined to "Old-Time Literature," The Bookworm comments also on the novelties of the day. The new art journal, The Sta4o, has not, we believe, been many months in existence, but its success is recorded here, and the editor, we are told, is a draughtsman of very great skill "in his serious moments." Then we have a rather pleasing specimen of that truly modern and rarely agreeable phenomenon, the interviewer. A. nook in these pages is found for Mr. Gladstone as a book-buyer, for Lord Cole- ridge's list of "the best books," for Mr. Quaritch's hat, and for a joke from Punch. Addresses, lectures, and newspaper articles that suit the editor's purpose, are reproduced to live a little longer in these well-printed pages, and some of them form, perhaps, their liveliest portion. Enough to say that there is ample matter here for readers who wish to be amused, and yet more that is likely to prove of distinct interest and service to the book-lover and student.
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