10 MARCH 1888, Page 24

It is to be feared that the author of "Bootle's

Baby," like most of her contemporaries, is writing too much, yet there is an element of novelty in her "Princess Sarah" which is running its course in the Leisure Hour. Among the excellent and opportune papers in this number of the Leisure Hour, may be mentioned " Frogmore House" (in a series of "The Queen's Homes"), "William Barnes," and Miss Gordon Cumming's "The Great Yellow River Inundation."