6 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 10

Princess Sarah, and ether Stories. By John Strange Winter. (Ward,

Lock, and Co.)—" Princess Sarah" is a story of the Cinderella kind. Sarah is an orphan whom some well-to-do relatives befriend in a patronising kind of way. In the end the tables are turned; the child, condescendingly helped by the kinder members of the family and bullied by the other, lifts them out of difficulties. But this is not the best thing in the volume. " Yum-yum : a Pug" is a beautiful little story of self- denial. " Halt ! " is a very pleasant little sketch, and so is " Jewels to Wear ; " the delightful experience of the first story accepted and the first publisher's cheque received never wearies in the telling. "Our Ada Elizabeth" is too sad for young readers ; but it is powerful.