20 NOVEMBER 1886, Page 21

Rags and Rainbows. By Margaret Hayoraft. (Cassell and Co.)— This

is a tale drawn from a store which, unhappily, is inexhaustible, the troubles and sorrows of the poor. A certain Mrs. Murphy is falsely convicted on the charge of having received stolen goods, and the story is mainly occupied with the efforts of her children to keep themselves and their grandmother out of the workhouse. How they toil, what help they get, and what good they do others by their efforts, bringing out the best that is in every one about them, is told very well in this little book. We well believe that there are many such noble lives led among the poor, and wo hope, at least, that they bear as good fruit.