Fifty - two Stories for the Little Ones. Edited by A. H.
Miles. (Hutchinson and Co. 6s.)—Probably older readers will appreciate this collection quite as much as children will. We can assure them that they will find some charming stories among the fifty- tWo. Alice Corkran's "Pea Blossom" is a true story of the stage after a child's heart ; " Tom Stone and the Picture Dealer " would seem to be almost inspired by the " Christinas Carol"; " The Little Feller" has a quaint pathos that will appeal only
too closely to some readers ; Mr. J. K. Bangs's stories of " Jim- mieboy " belong to a class apart, with their weird imagination and ingenious quips and turns of phrase ; " The True Story of Patimer " is a terrible warning to fat boys ; and " Little Amplias " is a pathetic story of a boy who restores to an old couple their long-lost charity and milk of human kindness. Children will be grateful to whoever buys this book for them.