Queen of the Daffodils. By Leslie Laing. (Blackie.)—The second title
of this book is "A story of high-school life," and without doubt it is an accurate one. But the main feature of the story is the trouble caused by the introduction of a spirited girl, Lady Di by name, into a rompish family, whose spokesman predicts with that wealth of fearful and wonderful slang that ith members appear to command, "She's certain to be one of the chum-chum sort, and spoil all our fun." There is quite as much storm as sunshine in the Maynard household, but in the end Di is declared to be "a brick," and to have "turned up trumps." There is plenty of "action" of one kind or another in Queen of the Daffodils ; one could not, indeed, wish for a more animated picture of day-nursery, or school-room life, with its pains, its pleasures (including amateur theatricals), and its incessant chattel'.
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