Business. By J. Platt. (Simpkin and Co.)—Mr. Platt has strung
together a prodigious number of conventional truisms, platitudes, and common-places, and interlarded them with a marvellous array of quota- tions from writers of every class and of all countries. It would be easy to make objection to isolated maxims,—such as this, "Success is generally an index of merit." "Perhaps," adds Mr. Platt, " no better illustration of this adage could be found than Mr. B. Disraeli." There are many funny illustrations of this sort, and those and the quotations are the most readable things in the book. Of the rest, "He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument," must, we fear, be our verdict. Mr. Platt says that in 1873 he circulated gratuitously 30,000 copies of a previous work. Wo have no doubt a similar success may be similarly attained in the present instance.
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