THE AUTHOR of “John Bull and His Island” has done his work too well as “Max O’Rell” ever to be known by the name of “Paul,” given him on or soon after March 2d, 1848,—the date of his birth into the Blouet family of Brittany, France. “John Bull and His Island,” his first and greatest success, has been followed by “Jonathan and His Continent” and others in the same vein, all meritorious and all the easiest of easy reading. He is a genuine Frenchman, but blended with the “attic wit” of the intellectual products of Parisian literary garrets, there is a dash of the true Celtic, which entitles him to the O’ of his pseudonym. He is still living to delight the newspaper and magazine readers of two continents.