24 JUNE 1893, Page 14

The £1,000,000 Bank-Note, and other New Stories. By 'Hark Twain.

(Chatto and 1Vindus.)—There are some amusing things in this book, the interview between Noah and a German inspector of ships at Bremen being the most laughable, though there may be an objection to the subject. "A Majestic Literary Fossil" makes good fun of our ancestors' system of medicine. The "German Chicago" is a capital description of Berlin. Still, the book is somewhat made-up. The "Cure for the Blues" seems to us very tedious. It is an account of a very foolish book which came in the author's way. And then, as if we had not had enough, we have the book itself printed at full length.