The Girls Next Door. By Christina Gowaus Whyte. (S. W.
Partridge and Co. 3s. 6d.)—There is no particular story here ; but the characters in the tale, such as it is, never cease to talk in an interesting way. They do so in England; they do so with even more vigour when they are in India. Little sketches of life occur from time to time. Altogether, we get a quite readable book.—Peggy, D.O. By Helen H. Watson. (Cassell and Co 3s. 6d.)—Peggy O'Rourke, lamed by an accident, whiles away her' time by telling the story of the O'Rourkes, and makes a very pretty thing of it. She quite deserves all the good she gets when a dens ex machine uncle appears on the scene; the lost brother is found, and money comes flowing in from an admirable book which the father has left perfectly finished before his death.—Little Miss Determination, by Frances Toft (R.T.S., is.), is a story of the domestic kind with an excellent moral.—So is The Maynard Cousins, by Geoffrey H. White (T. Nelson and Sons, 2s.), with the special moral of "blood is thicker than water."
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