Queen's Manor School, by Mrs. Everett Green (Stanley Paul, 5s.
net), is a good story by a practised hand. It is more serious in tone than usual, and there are some tragic incidents. But it is distinctly interesting.-In The New Prefect, by Dorothea Moore (Nisbet, Os. net), the heroine's promotion annoys some of her schoolfellows, who threaten to leave the school in a body. She retaliates by inventing telegrams from parents anxious to place their daughters at the school. It is an amusing and high-spirited book.-Ginger, by Isabel M. Peacocke (Ward, Lock, 48. net), is a painful story of a New Zealand child whose widowed mother married again. The stepfather is a Murd- stone of an insanely brutal type, who ill-treats both his own children and the stepdaughter. The story is well written, but the gloom of it is too little relieved.-Back to Billabong, by Mary Grant Bruce (Ward, Lock, 4s. net), describes the experi- ences of a young girl who goes out with her brother to Australia after the War and lives with him on a farm. It is a highly inter- esting and cheerful story. Mrs. Bruce writes of what she knows
Island of Secrets, by E. B. Cowper (Blackie, 5s.), is concerned with the adventures of four children, with a dog, who go and camp out on a little island in a river, where they are frightened by a tramp. It is a pleasant book.
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