29 JANUARY 1916, Page 30

A Little House in War Time. By Agnes and Egerton

Castle. (Constable and Co. 6s.)—An agreeably written if somewhat rambling account of the everyday life of an English family during-the war. -It was no doubt a temptation to such practised novelists as the authors of this book to make " copy " out of the experiences and peculiarities a refugees of unhappy Belgium, but we feel it would have shown !better taste on their part .sot to have yielded to it. - *