3 DECEMBER 1910, Page 68

The Mean - wells. By Mabel Quiller-Couch. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.

3s. 6d.)—The three children, Priscilla, Geoffrey, and Loveday, are all that could be wished, whether they have to be good or to be naughty. They talk as children talk, or, perhaps, as they used to talk before they became so preternaturally acute. The scrape into which one of them gets is an excellent contrivance, and has the happiest results. The illustrations by G. E. Robertson are attractive, but the picture on the cover is something of a libel, and the good-looking young woman who is serving in the sweat- shop cannot have been the real Miss Pott, who had not a single tooth in her head.