3 JANUARY 1863, Page 57

A New Pantomime. By E. V. Kenealy, LL.D. (Reeves and

Turner.)— Although Dr. Kenealy does not give us any intimation of the fact, we are mistaken if this volume is more than a revised and enlarged edition of a work which appeared under the same title some years ago. It is a quasi-dramatic poem, constructed apparently upon the model of Goethe's Faust ; and it may certainly lay claim to be regarded as an ex- traordinary work, for it is one of which, we confess, that we are entirely unable to make either head or tail. It is a bulky production, consisting of nearly 600 pages, to every one of which we are willing to concede that its author may possibly attach some kind of meaning. Dr. Kenealy plumes himself upon the fact that his book is "caviare to the general." He tells us that it can only be appreciated by the wise and true and learned, for whom alone it was written ; and warns from criti- cizing it every one "who cannot enter into the author's soul." This we freely confess that we are unable to do ;.. so that it is not to be wondered at that we should have arrived at the conclusion that the book is, from beginning to end, a mass of as astounding rigmarole as

ever was printed. f