1 AUGUST 1896, Page 25

Rosalind : the Story of Three Parrots. By Emily Marion

Harris.

(George Redway.)—A good story, or, we should rather say, suc- cession of stories, somewhat spoilt by an occasional stiffness of style, especially noticeable when the parrots tell their stories. It is not easy to say what sort of English a parrot from Trinidad would speak. Possibly it might be somewhat broken. In any case, it would hardly be after this pattern :—" Her features were of a fine moulding, but the cares surrounding her, and the struggles she constantly made against an adverse fate, gave an air of sad- ness to her demeanour that some superficial observers mistook for a sternness incongruous with her youth."