24 JANUARY 1891, Page 25

Within Sight of the Snow, and a Surrey Idyll. By

Lily Watson. (Religious Tract Society.)—Of these two bright, cheerful stories, the first will probably be preferred by the girl-readers for whom they are obviously intended, owing to the spice of romance in it. Thanks to an aunt, a girl who teaches the pianoforte and dotes on the poets, gets a holiday in Switzerland, and there she " does " the usual scenery, plays and listens to a great deal of music, and finally finds her way into the heart of a German Professor, Herr Lichtenstein. There is more character, even although it is rather " grumpy," in the second story, in which an English girl and her Scotch medical lover are comfortably settled in the most mar- vellous fashion.