17 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 12

/ and my Master. By Mary Stephenson. (J. Hodges.)—" I"

is a poodle, ` Betsy ' by name, who tells the story of how her master was ordered abroad, how she meanwhile went to live with certain unsympathetic persons, how he came home, and how everybody was made happy, including a young lady, who alone had been able to appreciate 'Betsy's' merits. All this is well enough told, and illustrated by drawings of various merit. How big, we wonder, was the cat which figures in the picture fronting p. 30. It looks very small measured by the figure of the servant.