21 DECEMBER 1895, Page 24

My New Home. By Mrs. Molesworth. (Macmillan and Co.)— Mrs.

Molesworth gives us a very pleasing and truthful picture of the life of a little girl and her grandmother. Helena discovers herself to be spoilt when her grandmother goes to nurse a cousin, and leaves her grandchild to her own devices. What poor Helena's misery and delusion that her grandmother had ceased to care for her, led to, we will not betray, but it had the effect of putting things generally on a happier basis. There is nothing striking about My New Home. Mrs. Wingfield, as a slight study of a gentlewoman who has to exercise a stringent economy, is more interesting than Helena ; but Mrs. Molesworth is always readable and a clever artist in child-characters, and has many exquisite touches of youthful pathos at her command.