CURRENT LITERATURE.
GIFT-BOOKS.
Comrades True. By Elinor Davenport Adams. (Oliphant, Anderson, and Ferrier.)—This is a really good book for children The two children, who are, so to speak, the hero and the heroine (there is, quite rightly, nothing particularly heroic about them), have adventures which sometimes verge on the extravagant ; but they are worth reading about. Their friendship and their fallings- out are both described with plenty of spirit and fun. " Tommy " (a girl's name in this instance, it should be explained), is given to books ; Conrad is musical. But they agree to sympathise with each other's tastes, and set up a constant and loyal friendship. Of the more serious part of the book, Conrad's relations to his step- father, we can speak with equal praise.
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