3 DECEMBER 1892, Page 10

Stories. By Ascott R. Hope. (A. and C. Black.)—The author

has coll cted from his various books thirteen stories, all of them well worth repeating. The longest of them is called " The Burning of the Whius," from a volume entitled " The Seven Stories," and has, if we remember right, been specially praised in these columns. Anyhow, it left its impression. Mr. Ascott Hope is always particularly good in school-stories. Of these we have several specimens ; the majority, indeed, are of that kind. We may mention " Bobus and Bubus," from "The Seven Wise Scholars," and " A History of Hampen," from " Stories of Wlaitminster."