3 AUGUST 1895, Page 25

Llanartro. By Mrs. Fred Reynolds. (Gay and Bird.)—The author of

this guileless story describes it as a "Welsh Idyll ; " and unquestionably, if Welsh scenery and a sweet girl who paints fairly and answers to the attractive name of Meg, and two good young men who are rivals for her hand, make a Welsh idyll, the book deserves the name. Llanartro is quite wholesome ; it would be difficult to find two nicer young men than Laurence Trevor and Hugh Moray ; and the life-saving, inevitable in a story of this kind, is managed cleverly enough. But it would be idle to pretend that it is marked by distinction or even by "go."