Condensed Novels
By . With Illustrations by S. Eytinge, Jr. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.
THE good opinion of these travesties, which we expressed some years ago, on their first appearance, has only, like good wine, grown better with age. Mr. Harte has here condensed two novelists since his earlier work, and we should like to say that he has improved upon the others. But we cannot, for the reason that nothing could be better than the burlesques of Victor Hugo and Charles Dickens, — not even those of Mr. Reade and Mr. Disraeli, good as they are. The book is delicious, — full of flavors that we wonder to find at once so delicate and so piquant.