The Other Boy. By Evelyn Sharp. (Macmillan and Co. 4s.
6d.)—The "other boy" is a thoughtful, well-read young person who is suddenly brought into a family where the children do not appreciate these qualities at their proper value. "He's an absolute rotter," says the candid Ted to his comrade Charley—a girl, but so called for her manly qualities—" he can't do anything but grind !" We all know how this situation develops, and Miss Sharp does not disappoint us. Children, as every one is aware, demand that the oft-told tale should not vary in the least detail. We do not go so far as that, but we are well content to have the story going on the usual lines. It is for the story-teller to ma.ke it all the more pleasing by her way of telling it, and that Miss Sharp has the knack of doing. We venture to suggest that Aunt Theodosia is a caricature, and a caricature, too, not quite suited to the probable readers of The Other Boy.—Peterkin. By Mrs-. Molesworth. (Same publishers. 4s. 6d.)—This is a story wine!' centres, so to speak, in a parrot, one of the most wonderful of !us —There is some one of the heroine kind in this story. She is
!Inch kind. It has just the touch of mystery or quasi-mysterY
Mrs. Molesworth likes to give. It is, generally, a pleasant, 1171Y tale, in which young people act and talk in the natural fashion which it is one of Mrs. Molesworth's gifts to reproduce.
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