21 DECEMBER 1895, Page 24

Our Holidays. By the Countess Howe. (D. Douglas.)—The heroine of

Our Holidays conceives the brilliant idea of en- livening the tedious convalescence from illness by writing an account of her holidays. Then she proceeds to describe them,— how she and her brother built a hut, and how she struck up an acquaintance with a miner, who subsequently lost his own life in saving that of others in a coal-mine. It will interest children, particularly the account of the brave miner, Campbell, and his pathetic death-bed.