His Own Interpreter. By Gertrude Hollis. (S.P.C.K. le. 6d.) —A
picturesque story this of a young man, wrongfully accused, who is able to clear and, indeed, more than clear himself. Some- how the hero is a more convincing person than the villain, who has a melodramatic touch about him.—The Wonderful Gate, by Florence Bone. (R.T.S. 2s.)—Loveday Wynne has to part from her brother Michael, who is doing his best to keep himself by his painter's art in Rome. She goes to an unsympathetic aunt, but not till she has met some one who is to influence her not a little in the future. This is the first of not a few happenings, all of the opportune kind. Of course we may criticise the use of the "long arm of coincidence " ; but really it does not make the story one whit the worse. This is a very pretty, pathetic tale. There are clouds and storms, but a clear shining after all.—More about the Twins in Ceylon, bz Bella Sidney Woolf. (Duckworth and Co. ls. 6d. net.)—All who made the acquaintance of the " twins " will be glad to renew it. Just at the right moment they have another six months given them to stay in the island, and make the best of the reprieve. They see various things, amused by some of them and learning from others ; they make the acquaintance of a mongoose, which, however, disappoints them by turning tail when it sees the snake which it ought to kill. Altogether they have a good time, which the chronicle of their doings makes the reader share as far as may be.—The Children of the Cliff, by A. V. Dutton (S.P.C.K. ls. 6d.), is an agreeably exciting story of the right-doings and wrong-doings of a set of children, telling how things go amiss and how they turn out in the end for the best.
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