Gutter-Snipes. By Phil May. (Leadenhall Press.)—Here we have fifty pen-and-ink
original sketches of the boys and girls of the London streets. Mr. Phil May's artistic characteristics are well known, and it is not necessary to say more than that they are to be seen well displayed in this volume. "Lost," "Playing at Soldiers," "Boy Wanted," where the varied looks of expectancy are por- trayed in a crowd of applicants for employment, "A Day in the Country" (the expression of pleasure skilfully multiplied), and "Bob in the Cap," may be mentioned as particularly good. Nor must the clever picture, "Brother Artists," be forgotten, in which Mr. May "plants a sly bruiser on the nose" of a friend. "Androo Tuer is a Puddened " is a legend which one of the artist fraternity has just chalked on the wall, and illustrated with a likeness which can hardly be thought flattering.
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