21 JULY 1906, Page 22

The Wrong Envelope, and other Stories. By Mrs. Molesworth. (Macmillan

and Co. 6s.)—Although these are quite readable short stories, Mrs. Dfolesworth's peculiar talent is in writing for children, not for grown-up people. The device by which the necessary misunderstanding between the hero and heroine is pro- duced in the story called "The Wrong Envelope" is a little crude, and it is very difficult to believe that the matter would not have been explained long before the author thinks it proper to unite her two characters. "That Girl in Black" is the best of the stories. as it is very much the longest. Mrs. Molesworth's little note at the beginning gives a melancholy interest to the last story, "A Ghost of the Pampas," signed "Bevil R. Moleswortli."