17 JULY 1897, Page 25

When Hearts are Young. By Dees Cromarty. (J. Bowden.)— This

" idyll" is taken from the apparently inexhaustible subject of Scotch country life. Meggie Maclean goes from Ballinard to a place in a city, and comes back with ideas in her head, the most immediately fruitful of which is to let lodgings in the summer- time. Out of this beginning come various consequences which are described in a pleasant fashion, with a didactic purpose, not too forcibly obtruded.