27 DECEMBER 1890, Page 24

Adopted; or, an Old Soldier's Embarrassments. By "E. A. B.

D." (Religious Tract Society.)—Of course there is a certain amount of caricature in General Marston's perplexity when he has to do with his orphaned nephews and niece, and in the mischievous doings of the little ones. But Adopted is an amusing and instructive story.