24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 24

• ".Z1 is., all complete," on their governess's back is

an accepted joke, but to answer in person an advertisement for a governess, offering ..t30 salary, under the idea that they would get the money, sounds a little out of the common. When the volume is half way through the father and mother go to America, and the develop- ment of the children proceeds very rapidly. The story is suf- ficiently amusing, if one is not too particular about probabilities.