4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 11

The Little Torment. By Margaret Kilroy. (W. and R. Chambers.

2s. 6d.)—The theme is sufficiently familiar,—the spoilt child who is sent to school, astonishes her teachers and her fellows by her audacity, and gets into all kinds of trouble. We know, of course, that her nature is not bad au fond, and we are amused at her goings on. She is certainly better on paper than in real hi