My Prague Pig, and other Stories for Children. By S.
Baring- Gould. (Skeffington and Son.)—These short stories have been reprinted from various periodicals to which the author has con- tributed them. " The Prague Pig" is an excellent story of a quaint money-box (in the shape of a pig) which seems to work wonders in teaching self-restraint and other virtues to the little boy to whom it was given. "The Queen of Dentists" seems to have been a precursor of a certain popular practitioner, "pharmacopeia circumforaneus," of whom most of us have seen or heard. Mr. Baring-Gould is always entertaining, and not un- frequently instructive.— Another volume of short stories is Tell Me Another Tale (same publishers). To this, seven well-known writers—Mr. G. A. Henty and Mrs. Molesworth may be men- tioned among them—contribute seven stories, grave or gay, as the case may be, but, we need hardly say, always readable.
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