Love in a Cottage. By Agatha Hodgson. (Ward and Downey.)
—Mrs. Hodgson gives, in an autobiographical form, hints for the guidance of young people who have to manage on £250 a year. The young couple furnish a house for £90, and have the following scheme for spending their income :—Rent, rates, &e., £35; coals and gas, .8151,; wages, £14; eating and drinking, £118; clothes, 440; travelling, £10; leaving £22 for extras. All the details given read practical enough. It is, perhaps, as well that the book leaves off before there are any children. " Gilbert's " income was to rise by .95 a year. Allowing the moderate estimate of a child for every two years, we fancy that there would be a "tight fit" before very long. The autobiographist remarks : "We come of a prolific race."
We heartily recommend The Humane Educator and Reciter, com- piled by Florence Horatia Suckling (Simpkin and Marshall). It is intended to enforce the lesson contained in Coleridge's words :—
"He prayeth beet who loveth beet All things both ;trent and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and lovoth
These recitations, &c., are selected for the spirit of kindness and sympathy which they breathe. It should be a not ineffective way of influencing the minds of the young.
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