And even dumber folks will cry,
"By Jove! they've made a mull again,
MULL _à la_ TATE!"

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

[Illustration: Brer Rabbit.]

Everybody who took delight in our old friend _Uncle Remus_ will
thoroughly enjoy _A Plantation Printer_, by JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS. The
Baron doesn't recommend it to be taken at one sitting, the dialect
being rather difficult, but a chapter at a time will be found
refreshing. The like advice may be acted upon by anyone who has
invested in the latest volume of the Library of Wit and Humour,
entitled _Faces and Places_. By H.W. LUCY. The "Faces" are represented
by a portrait of Ride-to-Khiva BURNABY, and one of the Author of these
entertaining papers. The first brief narrative, which ought to have
been called "How I met BURNABY," is specially interesting; and the
only disappointing thing in the book is the omission of "An Evening
with Witches," as a companion picture to "A Night at Watts's."

By the way, in my copy of _A Plantation Printer_, the English printer
has made one slip, a sin of omission, at p. 153, where, Miss CARTER,
a charming young lady, is watching a Georgian Fox-hunt. She sees
"a group of shadows, with musical voices, sweep across the Bermuda
fields."

"'O ow beautiful!' exclaimed Miss CARTER, clapping her little hands,"