The Bachelor? Club. By I. Zangwill. (Henry and Co.) —
This is a sufficiently amusing book. A. club of bachelors who promise celibacy, and one after another commit matrimony, furnishes the main idea. This is not exactly novel, but it affords oppor- tunities for some amusing writing. By using these opportunities, and by putting in more or less humorous matter which is not particularly appropriate, a readable book has been produced. Perhaps "Hamlet up to Date," an account of an author's " ghost " (the man who produces the work to which another puts his name), is as good as anything in the volume. A table in which the calculations as to how one is to live on this or that income are burlesqued, may also be mentioned. Mr. Zangwill's humour is not subtle or refined, but it is genuine, and often fresh.
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