The Revolt of the Young MacCormacs. By Violet Geraldine Pinny.
(Ward and Downey.)—This is a very amusing and well- constructed story of a family of four children in Dublin, who get alarmed at hearing that their father, who is a learned professor, meditates going to America, but who also hear some mysterious news about a castle. The children are very natural ; that is to say, they quarrel among themselves and kiss and make friends, and unite in detestation of their governess, Miss Grubb. They fix on her back a shop card, bearing the words " Great Reduction. Only One Guinea Complete," and offer to sell her for £30 to a lady who has advertised for a governess. How Clare, Terry and Tod, are disillusioned about many things, more particularly Cor Castle, and how they are improved in many ways, though at the cost of misery and terror, the book tells in a most spirited fashion. The humour in The Revolt of the Young MacCormacs is genuinely Irish.
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