This illuminating treatise contains the fullest directions yet given for the securing of a mammoth circulation and a corresponding revenue. How to exasperate Mrs. Grundy; how to secure testimonials from Bishops and Archdeacons; how to get banned by the libraries--these and other passports to fame and fortune are set forth with the utmost particularity in this marvellous manual. THE YOUNG COMPOSER, by Eric Kornstein. This fascinating _brochure_ gives in a succinct and animated form absolutely infallible instructions for storming the citadel of musical fame. The enormous importance of capillary attraction, sartorial extravagance and controversial invective are duly dwelt on, while the charming tone and temper of the work may be gathered from the headings of some of the chapters: "The Curse of Conservatoriums;" "The Tyranny of Tune;" "The Dethronement of WAGNER;" "_A bas_ BEETHOVEN." THE YOUNG AMERICAN, by Dixie Q. Peach. In this priceless work everything that is most characteristic of the great American nation is invitingly spread before the English youth, so that in a few weeks he will be so well equipped with Transatlantic details as (if he wishes) to be mistaken for a real inhabitant either of a big London hotel or a Bloomsbury boarding-house. * * * * * MR. B. To the list of signally good men must now be added Mr. B. I do not say that he should be included in any extension of _The Golden Legend_, but no catalogue of irreproachables, beyond the wiles of temptation, can henceforth be complete without him, and as a model of rectitude in business his portrait should be on the walls of every commercial school. I can see him as the hero of this tract and that, and in course of time his early life may be written and circulated: _The Childhood of Mr. B., or, The Boy Who Took the Right Turning._ And who is Mr. B.? All that I know of him I find in an Eastern sheet which I owe to the kindness of a friend--_The Bangkok Times Weekly Mail_. Glancing through this minute and compact little paper, which is as big as any paper ought to be, my eye alighted upon an extract from _The North China Daily News_, and it is here that Mr. B. shines forth. A certain dealer, it seems, had received an order for a machine, but, being unable to deliver it, and wishing to avoid the penalties attending a breach of the contract, he had to resort to guile. The following letter to a confederate at once displays him as a Machiavellian and introduces us to that inconvenient thing, a Far Eastern incorruptible:-- "Regarding the matter of escaping the penalty for non-delivery of the Bar Machine, there is only one way, to creep round same by diplomat, and we must make a statement of strike occur our factory (of course big untrue) and please address person on enclosed form of letter, and believe this will avoid the trouble of penalties of same.