Rovixe Tunover Sourmene Cuixa—by Marry A. Franck, 2, Fisher Unwin Ltd, London, This is one of the most. interesting and informing books of its kind it has been our good fortune to see, The writer is skill. ed inthe art of observation, and Mr. Octavus Roy Cohen is considered by many to be America's foremost humorous writer of the present day. His humour is confined—always has been eonfined—to the coloured pop-_ ulation of the United States, and the present writer, who has had some years' experience of the same class of negroes, can say that Mr. Cohen not only'knows his subject well, but deals with it as faithfully professedly humorous work—which inevitably must admit of some exaggeration and some slight distortion—will allow. "Assorted Chocolates" is a collection of eight stunes, all of them good, and some outstanding. To one unacquainted with it, the negro idiom is apt at first to be both confusing and an-roying, but once the very clement-ary principles governing its being understood are mastered, it quickly changes from a drawback to a sheer lit, and helps materially—to} ur' the genuine—and, be it emphasized, always clean—humour which is ass ith anything. Mr. Cohen w Very much out of the ordinary run of present-day' light fiction, "Assorted Chocolat can confidently be recommended ax 'a certain medium to a few hours' enjoyment. We make the proviso one has to have a liking for that sort of thing. It does not Jappeal to everybody. Nor do some} of the classics, has the still more rare gift of being able to record what he Tras seen in a manner which holds
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