CHANGE FOR A HALFPENNY.
Change for a Halfpenny. By the Authors of " Wisdom While You Wait." (Alston Rivers. Is. net.)—The witty writers of " Wisdom While You Wait" have never done anything more laughter-provoking or more thoroughly good-tempered than the skit before us. Though the mother-thought of the book is the chaffing of the halfpenny Press, nothing comes amiss to its creators. The advertisements are specially delightful, and quiz with a fine impartiality the latest developments of all sorts and kinds. For example, we find in an announcement headed " Cheap Cottages at a Moment's Notice" that the editor of the County Gentleman has arranged to post one of their cheap cottages with every copy of that paper. Among the testimonials is one from Lord Dunraven, who inquires : " Have you any comfortable half- way houses ? " while Lord Lonsdale writes : " I am expecting the Kaiser; please post cheap Potsdam." Advertisements of motor- cars, memory training, and motionless bicycles—the last as sup- plied by the Sedentary Cycle Company—are all to be found within the compass of Change for a Halfpenny. Tho advertise- ment, however, which takes our fancy most is that of the best costume for motor-buses :— " A hearthrag by night ; A motor-coat by day."
It only remains to be said that the pictures are most ingenious and most amusing. Those who prove unable to get a hearty half-hour's amusement as their "change for a halfpenny" must be counted in the category of the " unamusable."
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