11 DECEMBER 1875, Page 23

Wild Mike and his Rana. By the Author of "Misunderstood."

/Richard Bentley.)—This is a very pretty little tale, evidently intended

to obtain additional aid for the Victoria Hospital for Children, aid apparently richly deserved. The authoress writes with refinement, pathos, and vivacity, and the only fault wo have to find is with the spasmodic and irritating printing, which breaks up the story into short sentences separately paragraphed, and so gives it a wild, interjectional air most annoying to the reader. But for this faulty printing, it would be a most effective little story for its purpose, and indeed it is so even now, for all who can make a good meal off crumbs and fragments.