15 OCTOBER 1892, Page 23

Lilly Thorn's Voyage. By Grace Stebbing. (Nisbet and Co.)— Miss

Stabbing must excuse us for saying that her little heroine becomes a trifle tiresome. Her sayings and doings on board the

ship are related in about the same amount of space as might fairly be given to the history of " Joan d'Arc ;" and this is really too much even for the most engagingly comic of children. The ladies whom she tormented really had some reason to complain. Still, the book is amusing in its way; it teaches some good lessons, and if it had only been half as long, might have passed without criticism.