25 DECEMBER 1875, Page 22

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens.

Household Edition. With Fifty-nine Illustrations by F. Barnard. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a good edition, in double columns, but in very largo, clear type, of one of Dickens's best tales. We are not, on the whole, satisfied with the illustrations. John Browdie, for instance, is no more like the Yorkshireman Dickens intended to portray than finlike is like the ill-used boy on whom Dickens lavished his sympathy. The illustrator, however, is happier in some of his London sketches. The silly, simpering fiancee of the leering lord whose admiration makes Kate Nickleby uncomfortable in Madame Mantalini's rooms is, - -however, very well imagined and skilfully drawn.