29 JUNE 1895, Page 11

The Story of Babette, a Little Creole Girl. By Ruth

Manery Stuart. (Osgood, McIlviane, and Co.)—This is one of the most delightful tales that it has ever been our good fortune to read. Babette, one of the daughters of Colonel le Charmant, is stolen in her childhood by a gipsy woman, married in her youth to an

Italian fisherman, and mother of a daughter who has found a husband among the same people. How little Babette grows up among the same people, and how she is brought back to her own home, is told in a way that holds the reader's attention without failing for a moment. We say little about the book, but we com- mend it most unreservedly.