29 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 22

The Autocrat of the Nursery. By L. T. Meade. (Hodder

and Stoughton.)—We cannot help thinking that that very respectable and sensible person, "nurse," was pretty nearly right when she gave it as her opinion that "there was something wrong with the children's brains." Young gentlemen of six or thereabouts who bury their young sister in a snow-drift in order to have the satisfaction of acting "monks of St. Bernard," are very dangerous inmates of a nursery. Let us hope that such are seldom to be found. Be that as it may, Miss Meade makes a very amusing book out of their sayings and doings, her chief heroine being one "Charlie," a cousin who is intro- duced into a family of three boys and a girl, and who proves to be a most decided success.