Children I Have Known. By Frances Hodgson Burnett. (Osgood, AlcIlvaine,
and Co.)—These are delightful little sketches, triumphs in the art of spinning delicate and graceful textures out of the slenderest materials. Mrs. Burnett takes, for instance, the well-known photographs of the German Emperor's son, and dis- courses about them in a most interesting way, not saying, perhaps, anything that is not obvious, but saying everything in the pleasantest fashion. Perhaps the most favoured figures are those of Italian children. The little domestic autocrat who is entitled "111ustrissimo Signor Bebe," the charming child who showed the English cemeteries at Rome ; and, in the second part of the volume, the fortunate Giovanni and the unfortunate " Other," are of Italian race. But the book will charm readers-, young and old, from beginning to end.
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