23 JUNE 1888, Page 26

An Operetta in Profile. By " Czeika." (Ticknor and Co.,

Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a social satire, often pungent, and, as satires are wont to be, often unjust ; but it is smart and readable. It tells us how an amateur dramatic representation was got up, and what difficulties, intellectual and social, the promoters encountered. The scene is laid in the United States, presumably in a New Eng- land town. The author is never so smart as when she handles American claims to the possession of an aristrocracy. As she puts it, "aristocracy is only a euphuism for money."