1 NOVEMBER 1884, page 37

A Couple Of One-volume Novels.* Personal Recollections Of...

Esq., is a record of practical jokes narrated autobiographically by their unconscious victim, and the substitution of the words "practical joking" for " personal " in the title......

A New Life Of Sydney Smith.* Or A Man Of

so sane and bright a mind as Sydney Smith, it is hardly possible to learn too much ; and Mr. Reid's im- portant though modest supplement to Lady Holland's biography of him......