Wilfrid Clifford. By Edith C. Kenyon. (W. and R. Chambers.)
—Although Wilfrid Clifford has the misfortune—or what is commonly accounted the misfortune—to be a "sequel," it is happily all compact, and its author has certainly written nothing sprightlier or healthier. Wilfrid is a lad who has read a great deal about knights, and is full of the knightly spirit. He shows it in two ways ; by fighting the poverty which has befallen his widowed mother, and by fighting the "infidel," and both of them in the capacity of a grocer's errand boy. One almost regrets at the end, that the so-called "infidel "should turn out to be a very well-to-do relative, and that in consequence, Wilfrid's bravery is- not needed for any length of time. Some of the incidents in the story are exceptionally well told—particularly the prevention of a railway accident by the courageous but dreamy General Grey.
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