Gerry Goes To School. By Elinor M. Brent-dyer. (chambers....
6d. net.) A vivacious tale of the friendships and quarrels of girls at school and at home.......
• Books For Small Children.* It Is Hardly An Exaggeration
to say that The Velveteen Rabbit, 1 that small, modest volume, is the most attractive of the children's books published this year. Other books may have more splendid bindings,......
A Serious Novel Which The Publishers Have Disguised As A
Sunday-school prize. Miss Canfield shows, with much incidental wit and insight, that too great a care hi the upbringing of children may defeat its own ends, and suggests that......
How Audrey Became A Guide. By F. 0. Ii. Nash.
(S.P.C.K. is. net.) A mildly written account of field-days and rallies in a fictitious troop of Girl Guides. Audrey became a Guide in the usual way, she enrolled ; but at first......
The White Witch Of Rozel. By E. G. Cowper. (blaekie.
Os. net.) THE WHITE WITCH OF ROZEL. By E. G. Cowper. (Blaekie. Os. net.) The superstitions of the Guernsey folk enliven this attractive and well-written story of some young......
A Fourth Form Rebel. By Christine Chaundler. (nisbet. 4s....
The rebel put the finishing touch to her rebellion by running away. Fortunately she met a friend in the train and got back just in time to save the school from burning down. It......
Trixy And Her Trio. By L. E. Tiddeman. (jarrolds 5s.
net.) The trio are entertaining. The book is written for edifica- tion. • The moral, very skilfully rubbed in, is that little girls should not be snobbish. It in no way spoils......
Only Pat. By May Baldwin. (chambers. 5s. Net.) Patricia...
travels from St. Pancras to British East Africa. She goes to school in Nairobi, and, though she finds an unfamiliar atmosphere among her fellow-schoolgirls, she succeeds in......
The Fortunes Of Joyce. By L. E. Tiddeman. • (jarrolds.
5s. net.) A rather gloomy little book. Joyce, who is deeply attached to her grandmother,with whom she lives, becomes aware that age has enfeebled her mind. An angelic doctor, a......
The Happy Adventurers. By Lady Middleton. (blackie. Os....
Lady Middleton has written a graceful story of a young girl who imagines herself back in the days when her mother was a - child. She has many adventures in South Australia with......
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