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Step - Sister Stella. By Evelyn Everett-Green. (The Pilgrim Press. 3s. 6d.)—The

complications and difficulties brought about by a second marriage make a suggestive subject, which Miss Everett-Green handles with sufficient taste and skill. The new brothers and sisters whom Stella acquires are not altogether desirable, and we are interested in seeing how she influences them. Of course it may be said that people are not changed in this way. Not, perhaps, in the definite way which has to be described when it comes into a story. But to say that these moral changes are not possible is the worst of heresies.— Another tale especially meant for girl readers is A Modern Atalanta, 13y Margaret Surrey (R.T.S., 3s. ad.) We must own that the story, however well intentioned, is not altogether to our liking.