In The Mystery of Saffron. Manor, by E. E. Cowper
(Blackie, 6s. net), a family of young girls let their big house and act as maids to the new tenants, reserving a wing of the house for their old aunt. The children of the newcomers are puzzled by the lights in the wing, which is supposed to be shut up, and alarmed by the aunt, who wanders about at night like a ghost. A woman in a caravan tries to gain admission to the closed wing to look for pearls which a burglar friend has hidden there. It is a nice creepy story.—Their London Cousins, by Lydia Miller Middleton (Blackie, 6s. net), is a cheerful tale of two Scottish children who make a long stay in London and find by experience that Londoners are not so bad after all. They have an amusing encounter with an Amfirican child, who is as shy as they are at first, but who turns out to be entirely human. —Dinisie Moves Up, by Dorita Fairlie Bruce (Milford, 6s. net), is a well-written story of a school near the sea, with a smugglers' cave hard by and a secret stairway to it. A tennis match is described with much spirit.
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