20 JULY 1907, Page 25

Innocent Masqueraders. By Sarah Tytler. (John Long. 6s.)— This is

a story of life at Blackheath rather more than a hundred years ago, and is concerned with two young ladies who, by a singular coincidence, are abandoned as babies on the heath on the same night. They are adopted by benevo- lent persons in the neighbourhood, though by an accident the baby of the higher social birth is chosen by a farmer's wife and the less well-born infant is brought up by a lady. The account of the two girls is well contrasted, and the book gives a picturesque description of the life of those days. It is written with all "Sarah Tytler's" usual grace of style, and may be recommended as a very pretty story.