Dauntless Patty. By E. L. Haverfield. (H. Frowdo and Hodder
and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Patty comes from one of the Colonies to England, and finds herself somewhat at a loss. After certain adventures she becomes an inmate of a girls' school, and after an indifferent beginning wakes up, as her chronicler puts it, and comes, so to speak, into her own.—The Court-Harman Girls, by L. T. Meade (W. and E. Chambers, 6s.), is the story of the daughters of a widow in reduced circumstances, living in a fine house with little wherewith to keep it up. What remedy is to be found for this state of things? That is the question which Mrs. Meade's story answers. She always gives us something original, and this tale is no exeeption.—A Courageous Girl, by Bessie Merchant (Blackie and Son, 8s. 6d.), is "a story of Uruguay," and so takes us to a scene which will be new to most readers. There is something of a tragica' element in it, but its novelty and variety can hardly fail to please.
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