4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 11

Her Little Kingdom. By Laura A. Barler-Snow. (S. W. Partridge

and Co. 2s. 6d.)—This is a domestic tale with a strongly

defined religious purpose. Gwynneth, the heroine, has to leave the peaceful home where she has lived for years, and is brought into society of a very different kind,—a world where they play

Bridge, and where a girl ceases to believe in God because, after praying that she might win and touching her amber cross, she loses a hundred pounds. There is a little over-colouring in this part of the tale, but the moral is excellent, and not, we should say, unneeded.