The Young Idea. By Phyllis Browne. (Elliot Stock. is. 6d.
net.)— These "Talks with Mothers on the Home Training of Children" are full of good sense and insight, and are evidently the outcome of experience carefully gathered and utilized to the very best purpose. The two " Bible Teaching" chapters are especially good. We may, however, relate a personal experience as to one of the stories which Mrs. Browne mentions—Daniel in the Lions' Den The narrator omitted the detail of the women and children being thrown down along with the offenders. This did not please the listener. He had heard it before and resented the loss of this striking detail. We cannot accept Mrs. Browne's opinions on physical punishments. The less mothers use them, perhaps, the better, but that they should wholly disappear is another matter. It is one of the privileges of the upper classes that they receive some improving correction in their early days.
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