3 DECEMBER 1892, Page 11

Ragged Simon. By Florence C. Burch. (Religious Tract Society t—The

interesting person in this story is a little girl, known by the nickname of " Monkey," one of those children whose youth is so pathetically contrasted with the woman's work which they do. " Monkey " is a very natural figure, not at all uniformly good, for she is quite capable of telling a story, but possessed with a sense of duty The way in which she acts unconoociously in the true spirit of Christ is excellently brought out. Her pious old neighbour asks her, for instance, whether she has done a kindness for Christ's sake. She shakes her head. "There was no one else," is her simple account of the matter.