6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 14

Mr. F. C. Burnand republishes, under the title of Quite

at Home (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.), a number of contributions to Punch. Some readers may remember the scheme, never carried into execu- tion, of dragging Boodel's pond. This same Boodel's house is the scene of the earliest experiences " In a Country House." Such, indeed, is the scene of all the experiences, only the locality being changed. The papers are amusing enough; but we confess to preferring them as they appear. A whole volume is somewhat overpowering.—Another reprint is Mr. Edmund Gosse's Robert Browning : Personalia (T. Fisher Unwin), originally published in the Century Magazine.