Juvenal in Piccadilly and The Excellent Mystery are two fierce social satires and, like most satires, they are the product of the corruption they pillory. The first is written on a very convenient principle. Blank spaces are left for the names of the victims and these the reader can fill up as he wishes. Must--bluster,--give the lie, --wear the night out,--sneer! is an example of this anonymous method. It does not seem to us very effective. The Excellent Mystery is much better. It is full of clever epigrammatic lines, and its wit fully atones for its bitterness. It is hardly a poem to quote but it is certainly a poem to read. The Chronicle of Mites is a mock-heroic poem about the inhabitants of a decaying cheese who speculate about the origin of their species and hold learned discussions upon the meaning of evolution and the Gospel according to Darwin. This cheese-epic is a rather unsavoury production and the style is at times so monstrous and so realistic that the author should be called the Gorgon-Zola of literature. (1) Salome. By J. C. Heywood. (Kegan Paul.) (2) Sonnets and Other Poems. By William Griffiths. (Digby and Long.) (3) Fires of Green Wood. By Francis Prevost. (Kegan Paul.) (4) Vanclin and Other Verses. By John Cameron Grant. (E. W. Allen.) (5) Caesar Borgia. By W. Evans, M.A. (William Maxwell and Son.) (6) The Cross and the Grail. (Women's Temperance Association, Chicago.) (7) Juvenal in Piccadilly. By Oxoniensis. (Vizetelly and Co.) (8) The Excellent Mystery: A Matrimonial Satire. By Lord Pimlico. (Vizetelly and Co.) (9) The Chronicle of Mites. By James Aitchison. (Kegan Paul.) VENUS OR VICTORY (Pall Mall Gazette, February 24, 1888.)