Portraits Not Without Bias.

The article presents information on the book "The Mirrors of Washington." Shoddiness is to be expected in imitations, and "The Mirrors of Washington" is no exception to the general rule. Although there is seemingly perfect freedom from restraint, the book fails to achieve the character of the book "The Mirrors of Downing Street." It lacks that spontaneity, that genuine weakness with smallness and meanness in high places, that suggestion of outraged hope and faith that appear in the first book. One does not discern an angry truth-telling, one discerns too plainly an, eye to the fattening of royalties, and the consequent throwing in of the tabasco at fairly regular intervals for the pleasing of a public taste craving hot stuff.