30 JANUARY 1897, Page 13

A Man in the Fjords. By Andrew Deis. (Digby, Long,

and Co.) —Some of Mr. Deir's humour is very poor stuff indeed, and though the latter part of the book is readable, it is only just readable, and readers who begin the book will scarcely feel encouraged to persevere. Such nonsense is permissible in the columns of a half- penny comic newspaper, but becomes hopelessly feeble when Printed between boards. There is very little about the Fjords but the buffoonery that the travellers indulge in on their excur- sions and at the various hotels.