5 NOVEMBER 1904, Page 7

Little Robin Gray. By Edith C. Kenyon. (R.T.S. is. 6d.)—Robert,

alias "Robin," Gray is an orphan who has not a few interesting adventures, capture by showmen being the chief,—is it not a little beyond the average of probabilities that this should happen to him twice? The change in Robert Langland's character is somewhat crudely done. Nothing is so hard to make vraisemblable, and no pains ought to be spared on working out. Then the coincidence of the old love turning up again has a cumulative effect of making the whole tale seem improbable, and so of obscuring its real merits.