30 MARCH 1895, Page 24

The Old House by the Water. By Bessie Marchant. (Religious

Tract Society.)—The heroine, Pansy, the daughter of a younger son, whose marriage has separated him from his father, is sent home from India to live with her maternal grandfather. How she makes friends with the other grandfather, the elder son having meanwhile died, is told with much charm. Eventually her father and mother return, all are reconciled, and all ends well. Pansy is a curious little character, and will interest children.