22 DECEMBER 1883, Page 23

School-girls all the World Over. Par E. Bertha. (Routledge and

Sons.)—It is by something of an effort of imagination that these sketches are styled sketches of "school-girls." Daphne, the Greels girl, and Izananis, a young lady of Japan, do indeed learn something, though their education is mixed up with plenty of adventure. Emma, "the little Hawaiian," may also claim the title ; but the Montenegrin and the negress and the Mexican have little or nothing to do with education. The book, which apparently comes from a French source, is, perhaps, not the less amusing that it does not answer very closely to its title. The illustrations are particularly spirited.