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Les Gourmandises de Charlotte. Par Jeanne Samary. Illustra- tions de

Job. (Librairie Hachette, Paris.)—Here is a volume which affords an admirable opportunity of cajoling young people into improving their French. Charlotte is a terrible example of a child who will eat sweets, and nothing but sweets. Her fond mother gives her a huge Easter egg of cherry-coloured sugar. Hence come the troubles. Nothing pleases her but sweets; she pines away under this diet to a most frightful extent. Her adventures are described with pen and pencil in a vein of humorous extravagance, which can scarcely fail to please young people, and also, it is to be hoped, circumvent them for their educational benefit.