The Diverting Histor g of John Gilpin appears again, illustrated
by H. Fitz-Cook. (Longtnans.)—This is one of the things which we should now miss at Christmas as much as we should miss mince-pie. The illustrations are very much what a contemporary artist would have designed, and though they scarcely add to the humour of the Terse, are not unworthy of it. The typography is exceedingly elegant. Another old acquaintance reappears in Doctor Syntax's Three Tours (Rotten). Copies of the original illustrations, or the greater part of them, for we have an indistinct remembrance of others, are given with the text unabridged. Both text and illustrations are possibly worth preserving, though our caricature has certainly made a marvellous advance since the days of William Combo. Mr. Hotten prefixes a very interesting memoir of the writer. Puck on Pegasus, by II. Cholmondeloy Pennell (Rotten), illustrated by Leech, Doyle, Tenniel, Millais, &c., has reached a sixth edition. In such a case our duty is discharged when we say, as we honestly can, that the binding, paper, and printing are all very elegant.
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