Uncle Ivan. By M. Bramston. (National Society's Depository.) —The hero
of the story Uncle Ivan gets into difficulties with the police, and is allowed to depart from his native Russia on the con- dition of remaining an exile. It is on his nieces, whose characters and doings are described at great length, that the writer expends all her care ; the delineation of their little failings, their eccentricities, and childish devotion is drawn with a faithful care and a delightful sympathy with all that children do and think. Uncle Ivan, we are sorry to say, again gets into difficulties, but eventually escapes from prison, and so all ends well, thanks to the assistance of one of his nieces. The style and the dialogue are good, and the interest kept up to the last. The battles of the nieces with "Aunt Plammer," the aunt whom children dread so much, are realistic, and the essays on revolution are amusing.
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