7 NOVEMBER 1908, Page 9

The Fairchild Family, by Mrs. Sherwood, Related by Jeanie Lang

(T. C. and E. C. Jack, 2s. net), is one of the "Grandmother's Favourites" Series, not a little altered from The Fairchild Family that the writer remembers in far-off years, but doubtless altered judiciously,—shortened, for instance, to suit a generation which has so much more to read than that for which Mrs. Sherwood wrote about a century ago. It should be " great-grandmother's favourites," for Mrs. Sherwool was nearly forgotten two genera- tions ago.