Mrs. E. M. Channon's Two from Miss Tiddeman's (Chambers, 4s.
net) is sure to be popular with young readers. An American millionaire plays the favourite part of fairy godmother in a little village, and the two children who attend Miss Tiddeman's school are amusingly candid after they have accidentally found a pot of magic ointment and applied it to their faces. The little girl, who says quite truthfully that she does not want to go to the Duchess's party, and who tells the rich great-aunt that she is a tiresome old thing, creates some laughable situations for her very conventional mother. Whether the victims of the chil- dren's candour would have taken the lesson to heart so dutifully is perhaps uncertain, but the author at any rate makes very good fun out of their embarrassments.—Margery Finds Herself, by Doris A. Pocock (Blackie, 58. net), is a comical tale about a spoilt child of twelve who is sent to a, boarding-school and finds that life is made very hard for her with fagging and other methods of peaceful persuasion. Margery's attempt to revenge herself on her chief tormentor is somewhat far-fetched, but the story is interesting.
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