Excerpt from The Works of Thomas Hood, Vol. 2: In Six Volumes His son writes that he believes this last-named story the most humorous production of the author, and that the heroine was a ludicrous pen-and-ink portrait of a landlady with whom the family lodged in the Elm Tree Road.

We trust that both these stories, with the many equally enter taining in this new collection, will long continue to furnish to new readers, not merely Christmas amusement, but amusement for all the year round.

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