Messrs. Gardner, Darton, and Co. publish two volumes of comic
pictures and words, Nonsense for Somebody, Anybody, Every- body, particularly the Baby Body, by "A Nobody," and Some More Nonsense as Before. The first appeared last year, and was so successful that a second instalment has been given to the public. The drawings are decidedly funny, and have, in the midst of all their outrageous contours, &c., the touch of real art. " A Nobody" knows how to give genuine expression with the most sparing outlay of lines and dots ; witness the little girl holding an umbrella on the cover of Part I., and the red-headed boy Tommy in Part II. His attitude of self-satisfaction is quite admirable. But we cannot say much in praise of the words. It would be quite worth while for "A Nobody" to engage a com- petent poet.
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