3 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 11

Troublesome Cousins. By Penelope Leslie. (National Society.)— We suppose that

there is a certain amusement to be got out of the telling how children get into and out of serapes. At the same time we must own to a certain weariness when these things are made the staple of a book. Boys and girls who should be in- cessantly giving their elders this kind of trouble would be quite intolerable in real life ; imagine, for instance, the alarm felt when they are missing ; and it is a doubtful pleasure, to say the least, to read about them.