The Daughter of the Nes Perces. By Arthur Paterson. 2
vols. (Bentley and Son.)—There are some things in this volume which take us back to old times.—to the romantic Indians whose acquaintance we made in the pages of Fennimore Cooper. But there are other things of which Cooper and his generation did not so much as dream. The heroine—daughter of a Nez Perce chief and an English mother—is a teacher in an American ladies' college, when her father comes for her. The white men who appear in the story are, for the most part, sadly degenerate crea- tures; and the United States Government appears in alight which the patriotic novelist of fifty years ago would have regarded with horror. The action of the story is vigorous, and the whole con- ception and execution deserves high commendation.
The May number of Brothers and Sisters, a little quarterly magazine for children, edited by Mrs. Caldwell Crofton (" Helen lam= "), besides a complete story by the Hon. Eva Knatchbull- Hugessen, contains the record of a visit to the St. Nicholas Home for Crippled Children at Byfleet, which is largely maintained by the members of the Children's Union. This is a juvenile branch of the Church of England Society for providing homes for Waifs and Strays, and it is a good thing to encourage children who have money and leisure at their disposal, to practise acts of kindness and self-denial ; but the editor has done wisely in enlisting the sympathy of her young readers without harrowing their feelings by too many painful details.
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