Printers' Pie. (Offices of the Sphere. ls. net.)—We are glad
to see this second specimen of Printers' Pie, "a Festival Souvenir of the Printers' Pension Corporation," a "picnic," we may say, to which various popular authors contribute literary gifts for the benefit of the fraternity of printers. " Gift horses " are notori- ously exempt from inspection; were we to be so ungracious as to neglect the aphorism, we should find nothing to censure. We should, it is true, have been just as well pleased without the specimen of the French drama which Mr. Bourchier has been good enough to contribute. It is powerful, but how any human being can find a pleasure in seeing or reading such horrors is inconceivable. Perhaps the best thing in the book is Miss Braddon's story of how difficult it is for the man who has been philanthropic in theory to become 'philanthropic in practice when the unexpected millions drop in upon him. "The Mate's Joke" is specially good. There are some excellent illustrations, and the cover with the " blackbirds " coming out of their dwelling- place we cannot praise too highly. It is the work, we see, of "E. Miriam Creston." Is caricature also one of the domains which woman, ever unsatisfied, is going to annex ?
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