that it is meant for a gift-book. We accordingly include
it among our notices of these publications, but with a most emphatic warning to our readers not on any account to give it. It will be quite sufficient to quote from the publishers' own description :—" This charming story is told from a child's point of view she is an innocent and wondering onlooker at events which lead to her mother's elopement." And this is a book for a child ! The little creature who sees, and in a way compre- hends, what is going on, is seven years old ! It is almost incredible. What shall we have next ? "Stories from the Divorce Court in Words of One Syllable" would suit quite young children, and, to take a hint from the publishers' catalogue, "Fifty-two Stories of Intrigues and Elopements for Boys and Girls" the older ones.
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