4 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

The Gentle Heritage. By Frances E. Compton. (A. D. lanes.)

—This is a story, if it may be called a story, told by a child. She describes the sayings and doings of her brothers and sisters, and how they make acquaintance, and finally friendship, with a neigh- bour who goes under the name of ' Bogey.' There seems to us to be something not wholly unlike affectation in these said children. They talk too much about themselves, and in too grown-up a way.

We have received now editions of Menhardoc : a Story of Cornish Pits and Mines, by George Manville Fenn (Mackie and Son) ; of Under False Colours, by Sarah Doudney (same publishers) ; and of Footsteps to Fame, by J. Hain Friswell (John Hogg).