Reminiscences of an Old Draper. (Sampson Low and Co.) — If any-
body fancies that the various " dodges," not to give the processes their hardest name, by which London shop-keeping of the present day seems to many of us to be unfavourably distinguished, are among the conse- quences of life at high pressure, over-competition, and so forth, he has only to read these entertaining " Reminiscences" to be disabused of the notion. The writer of them does not hesitate to express his belief that many of the manceuvres described have passed away ; in that case, they have left a goodly crop of successors. The Old Draper has cer- tainly contributed a chapter to the "Romance of the Counter," if ever it comes to be written, and one which reminds us of Mr. Trollope's almost forgotten "History of Brown, Jones, and Robinson," in a manner that we hardly expected, in what, we suppose, we must call real life. He would be a capital companion, either in the flesh or in his little book, for a long railway journey, and we hope we may meet with him some day again, and in that capacity. If all the papers in the Warehousemen and Drapers' Trade Journal are as readable as these, that journal must be languishing in very unmerited obscurity.
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