Mand's Boy, and other Stories. By Ina More. (Partridge.)—The ."
boy" is an orphan, whom Maud, when a young girl, rescues from misery, and who, years afterwards, repays her love and care by saving her only child from death by drowning. It is needless to ask whether such coincidences are probable. It is sufficient to say that they are possible, and that they express in a from which every one can appreciate the truth that such good deeds do find their reward somewhere. The story is told with tenderness and grace; if Meud's Meters are made too much like the conventionally selfish persons who act as a foil to a heroine's goodness, Charlie is a genuine boy, concealing, as the human animal at this stage of growth commonly does, real fooling under a chaffing, bantering outside. Tho other tales are scarcely as good as Maud's Boy, but are not unworthy to go with it. Altogether, this is a 'wholesome little book for childrens' reading.
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