Pixie O'Shaughnessy. By Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey. (R.T.S. 2s.
6d.)—" Pixie," christened "Patricia Monica de Pere," is of a familiar type of Irish girl; but Mrs. Vaizey has the art of making old material look fresh, as all who have read her "Peggy Saville" must know. She comes from a castle, typically Irish, to an English school, where she makes herself at home in a marvellous fashion. Then the scene changes to the castle, to which Mademoiselle, the French teacher, has been invited. Here various things, comical and tragical, happen; a love story is begun, and another carried on ; and the usual "business" of the novel is introduced and finished off. Pixie is not much of a story. In fact, the heroine, though she is always amusing, does not interest us as much as her sisters. But it is a gay, and at times even brilliant, little story, and always wholesome.
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