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Faith Cotlerill. Selected and edited by J. Erskine Clarke, M.A.

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a pleasing little col-

lection of short and simple stories intended mainly to teach the immortal lessons of love and self-sacrifice. The first is a typical one, telling of the tragedy of a poor girl, in the time of the Civil War, who is the daughter of a Roundhead, and is at the same time on the most friendly terms with a Cavalier family. Her death is in a way a martyrdom for both. Another very good story is " Karl and Nina," which deals with the war between Prussia and Austria and the battle of Kfiniggratz ; it ends happily, at all events for the chief characters.