The Rainbow Garden, by Gratiana Chantes (R. Brimley John- son,
5s. net), is a pretty volume of little sketches from life, done by pen and pencil. Possibly there is just a little tendency for sentiment to run into the sentimental, but there are good things to read and good things to look at.—Fairy Tales from the Swedish of Baron G. Djurklou, translated by II. L. Braekstad (W. Heinemann, 3s. 6d.), may be commended on the whole, but such a story as "Katie Grey" would have been better away. In Scandinavian literature there is too often a strain of this unwholesome kind. Surely in a book meant for children it might have been removed with advantage.—Topsy-Turvy Tales, by S. H. Hamer, illustrated by Harry B. Neilson (Cassell and Co., is. ed.), may be commended without reserve.—So nay Thentrii, Ditties (C. A.- Pearson), Mr. Alfred Scott-Gatty contributing the words and the music, and Mr. Alex. J. S. Scott-Gatty the illustra. tions.
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