10 OCTOBER 1891, Page 10

Hepsy Gipsy. By L. T. Meade. (Methuen.)—Mrs. Meade dedicates her

story to George Smith, of Coalville. Nothing could be more appropriate. It is effectively written, and should help to awaken an interest in the wanderers in whose welfare Mr. George Smith takes so benevolent a concern. Whether the little heroine is or is not idealised, we cannot say ; indeed, some amount of idealisation is permissible to the artist. She is certainly an in- teresting little creature. Her resourcefulness, her courage, and the tenderness which slowly grows up in her for her little helpless charge, the baby, are well drawn. Mrs. Meade has not often done better work than this.