10 JANUARY 1891, Page 19

Bonnie Boy's Soap-Bubble. By Maggie Symington. (Biggs and Co.)—This is

a good little story of the fairy kind, which runs on conventional lines. A little boy and his dog, with the help, of course, of a dream, find themselves in Bubble Land, and so we have descriptions of the habits of its people, from the lowest to the highest,—the hereditary monarch of the country, who always reigns for a hundred years, and in order to make sure of a suc- cessor to whom there is kept a King in reserve. This is a pleasant and well-written book of the fantastic kind. We should have been better pleased with it, however, if the names of certain well- advertised soaps had been excluded from it. This would have been no very difficult matter.