Social &leanings. By Mark Boyd. (Longmans.)—Mr. Boyd has no doubt
heard. many good jokes and good stories, as well as many bad and dull ones, in his life. Unhappily ha does not seem to see the difference between them. Hence a•book which, since the author has seen many men of note, might have been very amusing, is actually very tedious. There are good things in it, of oourse. One of the best is of the Yankee speculator who (in days before the electric telegraph was) sold some capital carrier-pigeons to an editor, then supplied a rival with hawks which caught them, and finally approached his first customer with the offer,—" Why, Mr. Editor, I've got six eagles which I can sell you a bargain ; and if they don't settle matters with the hawks, and that slick, I'm not the man I take myself to be." There are a few other things worth reading, but scarcely one that is worth quoting.
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