THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
The Young People. By One of the Old People. (John Murray 5s. net.)—The author of this gracefully written little book describes himself as a paying guest living in a family of young people. He is very fond of them, and very fond of their parents; and he knows how to make his readers breathe the atmosphere of a pleasant home. The picture he draws is an impressionist picture, full of warm colour, but somewhat lacking in outline. We cannot distinguish the "young people" apart ; but " Father " and " Mother" live, and the writer tells us a good deal about youth in its relation to age which is both true and agreeable. He writes charmingly of "young people's loyalty, which we used to call filial piety " ; he enters fully into the delight of very young playgoers before they come to an age when "the actor tends to dominate the play, and criticism subdues imagination "; and he analyses with real sympathy and much religious insight the sentiment of very young people on the subject of death while as yet they know nothing about it at first hand. The last chapters describe expeditions, both in London and out. They are pleasant reading, full of historical allusions and philosophical surmisings ; but the first half of the book is the better.
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