Humorous Side - Lights on a Scotch Tour. By S. Kathleen Warden.
(Henry J. Drane. 6s.)—The critic who pronounces definitely that a book is or is not humorous is somewhat rash. Mood and circumstances make a difference. A book that does not amuse the solitary reader will sometimes take a company by storm. We can but say that these " Side-Lights " did not have the effect that we hoped. Perhaps it was because we compared them with " Penelope's Experiences," a standard which cannot often be reached. Some things here are decidedly not funny, the writing, for instance, of "bovine species" for " cows" ; some may be, if they made their appeal to a different mood, a mood, it may be not unreasonably urged, not exactly habitual with the ordinary reviewer. More we cannot say, except that there are some things in the volume which do not pretend to be funny, and which are worth looking at.
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