Little Miss Peggy: only a Nursery-Story. By Mrs. hlolesworth. (Macmillan
and Co.)—" Little Miss Peggy" is a girl of five who, like Nansicsa, had the advantoge of having five brothers. Thanks to this, for it is doubtless an effective discipline, and to her own sweet nature, she becomes a little creature whom it is good to read about. Out- side her own family circle she finds visible interests in a family of children whom she calls "the children at the back," while she has a little romance of her own in a certain "white cottage " which she has imagined for herself, and hopes to find some day among the Braoken- shire bills. Mrs. Molesworth knows the nature of children too well not to be aware of the way in which the more imaginative natures among them live a double life, one in this tangible world, another in a world of their own creating. Other small personages help to make up the action of Mrs. Moleswortl'a little drama, and among them an admirable little baby, one of the beat infant-portraits that even her skilful pen has drawn.
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