Aylwin's Friends. By L. T. Meade. (w. And R. Chambers.
68.) —There is nothing special about this story till we get through more than the first half. The jealousies and likings of school- girls, the social distinctions of a little......
Miss Manners. By Aileen Orr. (andrew Melrose. 6s. Net.)- "
Miss Manners" is a domestic deity (more commonly known, we think, as " Mr. Manners") often invoked by the guardians of childhood for the benefit of their charges. She or he is......
Audrey's Awakening. By E. L. Haverfield. (h. Frowde And...
and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Miss Haverfield has given us in her new book a variation on the theme of step- relationships. For it is with no prejudice against them that Audrey......
Matthew And The Miller. By Violet Bradby. (blackio And Son.
2s. 6d.)—Here we have a mixture of fairy things and common things. On the whole, we prefer the old way, which brought one into fairyland without leaving any doubt about the......
Two Tagdeby Boys. By Mrs. Neville Cubitt. (wells Gardner,...
and Co. 3s.)—There is something of the Industrious and the Idle Apprentice in this story, only the Industrious helps the Idle to better things. It is a quite readable tale,......
The Little Torment. By Margaret Kilroy. (w. And R. Chambers.
2s. 6d.)—The theme is sufficiently familiar,—the spoilt child who is sent to school, astonishes her teachers and her fellows by her audacity, and gets into all kinds of trouble.......
The Story Of The Little Merman. By Ethel Reader. (macmillan
and Co. 3s. 6d.)—The "little merman," having purchased for himself a human body from a dwarf of the mountains at the price of his fishy tail, which, indeed, he could hardly have......
Her Little Kingdom. By Laura A. Barler-snow. (s. W....
and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is a domestic tale with a strongly defined religious purpose. Gwynneth, the heroine, has to leave the peaceful home where she has lived for years, and is......
School-story Is No Easy Task, And A Good Girl's School-story
is, we imagine, even more difficult. Miss Baldwin has sought to produce a novel situation by representing a girl who has been brought up by an old grandfather, who thoroughly......
Bravo Bob! By Andrew Home. (w. And R. Chambers. 3s.
6d.) —It sometimes strikes us—quite possibly we have already expressed the thought in print—that these stories of boys' life are not im- proved, are even a little spoilt, by......
The Vanishing Princess, By Netta Syrett (d. Nutt, 5s. Net),
is a tale of the realm of magic, ingeniously contrived, with characteristic pictures.......
Lucy May; Or, The Cobweb Cloak. By Agnes G. Herberteon.
(Blackie and Son. 2s. 6d.)—A pretty fancy is well worked out. A little maid who is discontented with her lot is enabled by a magic cloak to learn what other lives are like. She......
The Little Black Princess Of The Never-never. By Mrs. Aeneas
Gunn. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—We must find space for a notice of this " revised edition," so charming is the story, so striking the illustrations. The little black......
The Princess Of The Revels. - By L. T. Meade. (w.
and R. Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—Faith King, daughter of a clergyman, loses her =ether, and having no one to look after her is sent away by her father to be educated with her cousins,......
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