Signals of Distress. By Blanchard Jerrold. (Sampson Low, Son, and
Co.)—It is not easy to see the object of this work. It consists of a description of the vice and poverty of London, and incidentally of the institutions for their relief which are now at work. This has often been done before, and, we think, better done. Mr. Jerrold has no new form of our worst foes to describe, and has no specific remedies to propose for the old forms. We, therefore, ask, mil Bono? Perhaps the object of the book is to be found in the dedication, in which Mr. Jerrold informs "Dear Lord Brougham" that he dedicates his work to him, "not as of old the author on his knees wrote his dedicatory pages to some man of lofty station who would cast a mite to him," but to express "how highly he values the friendly counsel which Lord Brougham has sometimes deigned to give him." Could not the thanks have been given less ostentatiously?
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