The Amateur Scouts. By Raymond Sachems. (W. and R. Chambers.
3s. 6d.)—Tabitha Smallways, who is something of a pickle, makes friends with two young neighbours, and has a mind to be a scout herself, and to give them a liking for the same thi g What she learns, how far she changes her mind, and what she gets by the change, may be found attractively set forth in this story.—Sarah's School Friend, by May Baldwin (same publishers, 3s. 6d.), is smother tale of a girl's ambition. Miss King, the heroine, is the daughter of a self-made man, a millionaire, who was once a mill-hand. Prosperity has brutalised him; he has even lost his insight into men and things. How the "school friend" intervenes in the troubles which arise may be read with pleasure. She is a very astonishing, almost incredible, person, but what does that matter P—The Fitzgerald Family. By M. S. Madden. (R.T.S. 2s.)—This is a story of Irish life, written with some power, but not wholly to our liking. Was there no way out of the dilemma in which Moyra finds herself but the very deplorable one which the writer has invented? Such things are out of place in books of this kind.
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