Miss Cobbe has republished in Re - Echoes (Williams and Norgate) a
selection of fifty-two from a vast number of contributions (more than a thousand in number, she tells us, in her prefaee) which she contributed to the pages of the Echo newspaper, before the Echo was taught by Plutus to change its note. Very bright and amusing little essays they are, and well worthy of the longer existence which they will find in this permanent shape. "Fat People," for instance, is excellent, with such amusing generalisations as that fat men will not listen to the tale of woman's wrongs and do not commit suicide, and its profound political maxim that a country would certainly be happy "whose registrar-general could announce that the average weight of adult manhood had reached thirteen stone." The article on "Sleeplessness," on the other hand, is full of admirable, sound sense. It should be printed by itself, and hung up in the study of every brain-worker.
Previous page
