Cassell's Saturday Journal. (Cassell and Co. '75. 6d.)—The annual volume,
with its usual variety of entertainment and interest. There are stories, anecdotes, sketches, things serious and things humorous, and a quite extraordinary amount of the combination for the money,—nearly eleven hundred quarto pages, triple-columned and closely printed. " Interviews " are, of course, a prominent feature, one, in fact, for every week. Madame Sarah Grand thinks that women commonly choose better than men, Dr. Robert Wallace considered that an "M.P.'s life was worth living," Mr. Burnand tells us something about Punch ("Pickwick and the old-fashioned farce don't raise a smile in these days "—Pickwick, we take it, still raises quite as many smiles as Punch), Mr. Beerbohm Tree talks about the theatre, Dr. W. G. Grace explains how cricket makes for good, and other experts enlarge on their own specialities. The Saturday Journal certainly keeps up to its mark, except, it may be, in the article of humour.
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