12 MARCH 1887, Page 24

The Heroine of a Basket-Van. By M. Bram don. (National

Society.) —This heroine is Phenie Redmoor, whose mother has married a travelling seller of baskets ; and a very genuine specimen she is. We cannot give even a sketch of her adventures. It must be enough to say that they are numerous, and not, on the whole, improbable. That the kidnapping should have succeeded so well ie a little of a surprise ; but then, there are surprises in real life. The rural police, too, have sometimes a way of blundering over affairs that ought to be tolerably easy. Miss Bramston's is certainly an effective story.