The Vicar's Trio. By Esme Stuart. (National Society.)—The three children,
the Vicar's "trio," are those delightfully original
-children we sometimes meet with in stories and sometimes in life.
quaint, grown-up, little Mattis, Bernard, with his head full of ideas, which he carries out with that insistence and seriousness so amusing and yet so instructive to older people, are two types most of us have some time or other come across. The chief interest of the story hangs on Bernard's brilliant ideas, and the results which
follow when they are put into practice. The Vicar's Trio is amusing,
and can be read by all; they, we feel sure, will appreciate Mattie and Bernard, for they are original and lifelike young people. Esmk Stuart's" children are her best characters, and of their kind they are certainly good. The adults have not much vitality, and this perhaps we should not complain of, as the children stand out better against a conventional background.
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