2 OCTOBER 1886, Page 25

An interesting little volume, showing how much good work is

being done in an unpretending way, is The Directory of Girls' Societies, Clubs, and Unions. By S. F. A. Caulfield. (Griffiths, Ferran, and Co.)—One may smile at " Early-Rising" Societies, the members of which voluntarily fine themselves a penny or twcpence if they fail to be "down," say at 8 a.m. ; or at an " Early-Going-to-Bed Club" (the particulars are, unhappily, sot given) ; but the idea of voluntary association in aspiring, however humbly, to an ideal, is unquestionably good.