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The Story of a Spring Morning. By Mrs. Molesworth. (Long-

mans )—Mrs. Molesworth tells in that attractive way with which all her readers are BO well acquainted, of the troubles which .certain perverse children bring about, and of the way in which these troubles turn out for the ultimate good of all concerned. Armar, the boy who gets into such undeserved disgrace, has some- thing of the tendency, often to be observed in the characters of fiction, not to give the explanations which in real life would be certainly forthcoming. Apart from this, the story is excellent. The short stories that follow complete the volume in a satisfactory way.