MASTER AND MEN PINK 'UN YESTERDAYS. By J. B. Booth
(" Costs "). (Werner Laurie. 21s.)—There-eXists a public at once hungry for reading, yet unknowing of the classic masterpieces, though intensely interested in its neigh- bours' habits and doings, and most especially if such are labelled Bohemian. For such a public this is the book. Here are the old naughty 'nineties (not so very naughty after all) come to revisit the glimpses of the moon. Jokes, slightly husky but still calculated to raise the passing laugh, abound ; once notable figures re-present themselves—the famous bar- rister-journalist, Sir Douglas Straight; Bill Yardley, who was the first to make a hundred in the University match • George Sims, who "began life at the rate of 11,000 a year above his income," Oscar Wilde getting up impromptus from the back numbers of Punch in the British Museum reading-room. Glimpses all of an eager, hearty, irresponsible tithe when John Corlett handled with adroit robustness his oddly. assorted Pink 'Un team, and all presented with a rollicking gusto.
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