(i.e., _Mangeur d'écrivisses_) will be delighted to give at the well-furnished table of an apt and ardent pupil. Once more "_Your_ health, Sir HENRY!" that's the Baron's toast (bread not permitted) in honour of the eminent practician who does so much for the health of everybody. That a considerable number of novel-readers like _Saint Monica_, by Mrs. BENNETT-EDWARDS, is evident, because it has reached its sixth edition, but that the Baron is not one of this happy number he is fain to admit. _Saint Monica_ seems to him to be a story with which the author of _As in a Looking-Glass_ might have done something in his peculiar way. It begins with promise, which promise is not justified by performance. [Illustration] Who does not welcome the works of HAWLEY SMART, the brightest of our novelists? This is not a conundrum, and, consequently, has no answer. Everybody likes the books of our literary Major, and everybody will be pleased with _The Plunger_. The new Story is in two volumes, and is full of incident. There is a murder, which carries one through, from the first page to the last, in a state of breathless excitement. Not that the tale commences with the tragedy. But its anticipation is as delightful as its subsequent realisation; and, when the mystery is solved, joy becomes universal. The story is told with so light a hand, that it may be truly said that the only "heavy" thing about the book is its title. _The Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson_ is a good stout volume, full of portraits and interest from beginning to end, forming an important addition to the theatrical history of the day. The Baron drinks to his old friend, the greatest _Rip_ that ever lived. "Here's your health, and your family's, and may you live long, and prosper!" says, heartily, THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS. * * * * * [Illustration: SATIETY. "OH, MAMMY DARLING, WHY CAN'T THE TOYSHOP-MAN CALL FOR ORDERS EVERY MORNING, LIKE THE BAKER?"] * * * * * CORIOLANUS. "_First Citizen_. Consider you what services he has done for his country? "_Second Citizen_. Very well; and could be content to give him good report for't, but that he pays himself with being proud."--_Coriolanus_, Act I., Scene 1. _Teuton Coriolanus loquitur_:--