A Cricketer must smite to please the Million.
Routledge's Jubilee Guide to London, is good, not only for such a "high old time" as the Jubilee Week, but for the next three years or so until the streets are re-named and a few new thoroughfares opened up. The illustrations are excellent. There is only one objection to this Guide as a companion, and that is it is rather too large. No Guide to be useful should be bigger than the Handy-Volume Shakspeare size, originally started at 85, Fleet Street. Some of the French Guides, not the regiment, but the little books, Joanne's Series, are models in this respect.
Philips' Handy Volume Atlas is about the right size. "The World," it is often said, "is a small place;" but for all that, it does not go so easily in a tail-coat pocket, where Mr. Philips' Atlas can be conveniently carried. It is an invaluable companion for everyday newspaper reading. Happy Thought for Travellers, to whom this little volume is recommended, "Philips on his way through the World."
WHAT OUR ARTIST HAS TO PUT UP WITH.
Our Artist (showing his last and most important Picture, the work of years). "Yes, I should like to exhibit it; but I don't want to sell it, you know—at least not till times are better."
Friend. "Well, why not send it to the Exhibition, and put a prohibitive Price upon it—say Twenty Pounds?!"