Three Men on the Bumniel. By Jerome K. Jerome. Illustrated
by L. Raven-Hill. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol. 3s. 6d.)—We must own that we have not been as much amused as, perhaps, we ought to have been by Mr. Jerome's humour. Its quality is doubtless known to most of our readers, and it is needless to attempt an appreciation. Mr. Jerome retains, we see, the old belief, once almost universal, that drunkenness is a fit subject of fun. Hence the long narrative on pp. 298-307. A better specimen of humour follows, some good-humoured satire of German docility. "It is the hope of every well-meaning German boy and girl to please the police. To be smiled at by a policeman makes it con- ceited. A German child that has been patted on the head by a policeman is not fit to live with." And then follows a capital picture of a spectacled child so honoured by a spectacled official in a pichel-haubc.
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