Oder the Hills and For Away. By Mrs. Stanley Mather.
(P. F. Shaw and Co.)—Mrs. Stanley Mather tells, with digressions some of which might be spared, the story of how little " Lion," a five-year-old boy, runs away, how he falls into the hands of gipaies, is left as a waif and stray at the most convenient of all places, a doctor's house, and finally is restored to his friends. The coincidences are some- what surprising; it is too often forgetter by writers that two coincidences make far more than double the demand on one's faith that is made by one. But it is a pretty, pathetic story ; and " Lion" is a delightful child, though possibly more delightful to read of than to encounter, or at least to live with. Mrs. Primmer, the nurse whom he so scandalised by his goings-ou, bad something to say for herself.
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