ABSTRACT
Edward VI., and is announced as' A Tale for Young People of all Ages', is only to be described as some four hundred pages of careful tediousness, mitigated by occasional flashes of unintentional and unconscious fun. Thus Mr. Clements, who has evidently been reading history, and is anxious about local colour, not only makes a point of quoting documents, and parading authorities, and being fearfully in earnest, but does so with a look of gravity and an evident sense of responsibility that are really delicious. On the whole, however, of Mr. Clements's many jokes, Tire Priuce and the Pauper is incomparably the flattest and worst. To this, as a general reflection, it may be added that if to convert a brilliant and engaging humourist into a dull and painful romancer be necessarily a ftmction of the study of history, it cannot be too steadily discouraged. Messrs. Chatto & Windus are the publishers.
