14 DECEMBER 1895, Page 24

Messrs. Seeley and Co. have published a beautiful edition, with

illustrations by Mr. George Morrow, that are actually worthy of the text, of Mary Russell Mitford's delicious Country Stories. It is quite possible that to appreciate these thoroughly, there is needed that "leisure" which George Eliot maintained has fled' from us, presumably to Saturn. Even now, however, boys and girls with any sense of humour in them, ought to enjoy such stories as "Miss Philly Firkin, the China Woman," and at least the close of " Aunt Deborah," which certainly recalls Dickens at his very best.