11 DECEMBER 1886, Page 17

Climbing Higher. By Jessie F. Armstrong. (J. F. Shaw.) —The

story of a lost heir, not, perhaps, more improbable, but scarcely less so than such stories commonly are. But little Lille, the unhappy victim of the travelling showman, is, apart from the question of his birth, quite a natural and possible little fellow. Among acrobats, as everywhere else, there are those who are made nietiore luto, and Lillo is one of them. The story of his life and death is both instructive and affecting.