The Story of Sonny Sahib. By Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara
Jeannette Duncan). (Macmillan and Co.)—This is one of the "Pocket Novel" Series, the latest form of the reaction against the dominance of the three-volumed tale. "Sonny Sahib" is an English baby, saved from the Cawnpore massacre by his ayah, and brought up in this ayah's native country, a small independent State in the remotest North of the Maratha country. All his surroundings are native, but he shows from time to time infallible proof of his English birth. His courage, his love of sport, and his obstinate adherence to loyalty and truth come out. The denouement of the story comes when the English troops march against the State in which the boy has found shelter, and he has to choose between honour and inclination. Native ways and talk are reproduced with what seems to us an admirable fidelity to truth.
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