27 APRIL 1895, Page 11

Pictures from Punch. Vols. r.-ii. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.) —This

is a book which happily needs no criticism. It is sufficient to mention it. Two volumes, it will be seen, are bound in one, the first being headed with a portrait of the present editor, Mr. Burnand, by way of frontispiece, the second by one of John Leech. Together they contain between three and four hundred drawings, ranging in date over fifty years and more. To look through them must be a delight to any one. To those who can remember them from the very earliest they have a singular interest, not unmixed with pathos. If we must grumble, we should have liked a second index arranging the drawings in chronological order.