5 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 28

The Twins that Did not Pair. By H. Louisa Bedford.

(R.T.S.)—Helen and Harold are the twin children of Colonel Brabazon, she a sturdy infant and he puny, and it seems, scarcely likely to live. Their father is discontented and queru- lous. How he is taught to be wiser is the subject of this story, a good bit of work in its way, but with some drawbacks. Books of this kind are, in our opinion, bound, with but the very rarest exceptions, to have a good ending.---A Puzzling Pair. By Amy Le Feuvre. (Same publishers ) —Here we have another pair of twins, happily not too good to live, full ofurischief, when we bid them farewell, but all the better for the discipline through which they have gone. There is no little humour in Miss Le Fenvre's story, sometimes coming in where we should hardly expect it.