30 NOVEMBER 1895, Page 25

Bab ; or, Tit for Tat. By Harriette E. Burch.

(R.T.S.)-1 read- able little story is Bob, with some good girl-characters in it and an obvious moral. Children will have no difficulty in admiring the courageous obstinacy of Effie, who suffers for her sister's fault because she has given her word, and will not, we hope, have any pity for Bab and the miserable pride that prevents her confessing, and so clearing Effie's character on several points. Bab is essentially a children's story, and teaches them some good, wholesome lessons.