Conduct Stories. Ey F. J. Gould. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.
2s. 6d. net.)—This may be described as a continuation of a book which Mr. Gould published ten years ago, and appears under the same auspices, those of the Moral Education League. The two have the same sub-title, " A Volume of Stories for the Moral Instruction of Children." Of these stories there are more than fifty, collected from many sources, and treated, as far as we have been able to examine them, with good sense, good taste, and with no little felicity of manner. We cannot do better than give an example. A Brahmin, writing about Krishna, came to the word " early." Would it be reverent, he asked his wife, to speak of Krishna carrying a thing ? They agreed that it would not, and he substituted send. Shortly after the wife found that there was nothing to eat in the house. "Let us ask Krishna," he said. Very soon a handsome youth came to the door with a basket of delicious food. He had a wound in his breast. This, he said to the wife, your husband's pen has done. It had hurt him that he should be thought to prefer sending to carrying.
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