The Sunchild. By R. C. Lehmann. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.
6s.)—The " Sunchild" comes from a delightful world where none of the troubles and vexations and uglinesses of this world are to be seen. Ile visits the earth, not willingly, it would seem, but being there, he does all kinds of good. He brings about a recon- ciliation between two lovers, makes a child recover a lost ball, helps a schoolboy to remember a forgotten recitation, and so forth. All this is prettily told, and the illustrations are not un- worthy of the text. But surely the twelfth chapter is a mistake. "The Princess Decides" is the title. The Princess has a brutal husband, and after an outburst of his rage, she writes a note, puts it into an envelope, and "addressed it (but not to the Prince, her husband)." The note ends with "meet me at four o'clock, and I will go with you." Now, if some boy or girl of twelve should ask what this means, what is the mother who has given him or her The Sunchild to answer ?
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