28 DECEMBER 1889, Page 23

Master Roby. By Beatrice Harraden. (Warne and Co.)—" Roby," an

irrepressible boy ; Joplin, a benevolent and semi-comic police- man ; Kitty, a flower-girl; Roby's mother, and his aunt Dorothea, a short-tempered but kind-hearted person, are the dramatis persons of this little story. A jealous cook supplies the necessary villainy. But the suspense which her misdoings bring about does not really trouble us, and all ends well.