4 DECEMBER 1897, Page 10

The Dumphies. Frank Verbeck, Discoverer ; Albert Ingelovr Paine, Historian.

(Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—A book of fairly good pictures and indifferent letterpress. We cannot say too often that sense may be welcome when it is but of moderate excellence, but that nonsense must be very good to be endurable.