Christmas Roses: Tales for ,Young People. By Geraldine Butt. (Blackwood.
and Sons.)—" Dieudounde," the first and longest of these stories, is a tale of the Franco-Prussian war. Tho little girl by whqse name it is called, struck with a sudden horror of fear that her brother, a scholar in the keels Militairo, had boon sent to servo in the army and had been killed, determines to make her way to Paris. How she makes her way, and what she learns as she goes, what she sees in the city, where she finds her way to an English hospital for the wounded, is told very sweetly here. The moral is that love can bring forth blossoms even in the dismal winter of the horrors of war, and it is skilfully en- forced. " We Two," the shortest of the tales, is a pathetic little story of life given to save life. Nor are the other contents of the volume unworthy of these. Altogether these are very pretty and wholesome " tales for young people."
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