3 SEPTEMBER 1864, page 20

The Jest Book.* Iv Is An Odd Ambition To Be

the Joe Miller of your age for every- body thinks scorn of that grandfather of jest-books. And yet we very much doubt whether it is not still the best of its kind. It is so good......

M. Guizot's Meditations On Christianity.*

M. Gurzox calls his book "meditations," btit it is not a meditative book. It is a book of some ability, and in parts or not a little wisdom, but the thought is of the abstract......