In the Dragon's Mouth. By Mary Macleod. (Gardner, Darton, and
Co.)—This is a story of a well-known type,—the braggart discomfited by the lad of quiet courage. Another excellent moral is well enforced. The kindness shown to the hungry little Nick is well rewarded by services which the boy is able to render his benefactor. The Cornish scenery is well described.—Kate Ray- burn, by Constance Cross (same publishers), has something of the same purpose. Here it is a little girl of a very wild and almost savage temper, who is won over by kindness. Ethel is almost too good. Young readers are somewhat apt to rebel unless there is just a little shadow put into the picture.—Lejt on the Prairie, by M. B. Cox (Noel West) (same publishers), is a very spirited story of life in the West. Jack West, left behind with a relative who ill-treats him, determines to make his way to the place where his parents have settled. He has between two and three hundred miles to go, and to cross the Rockies. Here is plenty of scope for adven ture. Jack is a capital little hero, to whom things do not come too easily, as they are somewhat apt to do to heroes on paper.— We have also received a new edition of Mr. G. Manville Penn's very bright and lively story, A Boy with no Skid to his Wheel (Blackie and Son).
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