10 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 24

Primroses. By Mary Bell. (S.P.C.K.)—Bridget and Primrose, daughters of the

hardworking Mrs. Guerin, are not exactly the " industrious " and the "idle apprentice," for Bridget is a very good girl in her way ; but we see how the more timid, shy, and unpretending of the pair makes herself the more useful, and con- tributes more to the restoration of the family fortunes. Happy family that has so admirable a pecuniary providence as Mr. Whyte watching over them ! But we are weak enough to like these old-fashioned stories in which the long-lost, or, it may be, the unknown uncle turns up at the critical moment with his pockets full of money.