1 OCTOBER 1887, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

.Tohn Leech's Pictures of Life and Character. From Punch. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—John Leech's work, of course, needs no commendation; and we have only to mention this new volume, with its surprising variety and freshness. Apart from its unfailing fan, it is interesting as a record of manners. It is satisfactory, for instance, to notice that the "Oxford swell," who need to "do the High" about 4 p.m., has disappeared. On the other hand, the ladies have got far in advance of the only moderately masculine attire which ceases the bathing-woman to inform two damsels that "the gentlemen's bathing-machines are farther on."