CURRENT LITERATURE.
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Mum Fidgets and the Two Richards. By Constance Milman. (A. D. limes and Co.)—In the first and best of these two stories, a very lively one, which will please children, it is a girl who tells the tale, a. girl, too, not wholly satisfied with her position. She remarks, for instance, and not without force, on one occasion, "Just because Dick is a boy, he may do as he likes. He may lie in bed every morning at home till nearly breakfast-time, and mother only says, Poor darling ! I am so glad he is having a good sleep.' But if Sally and I are late, even once a week, we are asked if we feel ill, and are threatened with a glassful of nasty medicine." The motive of the story is the children's fancy that the summer-house called "Mum Fidgets" is really inhabited by a spirit of that name, for whom they leave various dainties, as housewives were wont to do for
the-fire.' The spirit turns out to be a thievish old woman; but the children are consoled when their cherished delusion is dis- persed.
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