30 MARCH 1895, Page 24

Five Stars in a Little Pool. By Edith Carrington. (Cassell

and Co.)—This writer uses her knowledge of children to inculcate some stern morals for children in such stories as "The Little Gardeners "—a paraphrase of the Parable of the Talents—and in "The Stolen Peaches." They are just the stories that children listen to,—didactic. but with plenty of attractive writing, and details of the routine of a child's life. The book is plentifully illustrated, and is a capital one for both boys and girls not in their teens to have read to them.