12 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 23

/da's Mistake. By "V. G. F." (Digby, Long, and Co.)—In

Ida's Mistake we have a lively picture of family life, with the quarrels, misunderstandings, trials, sunshine, and cloud, that go to make up life in the best regulated families. The story is too long, but it is readable all through, and some of the scenes are amusing enough and true to life. "V. G. F." certainly knows children well and how to make them talk ; indeed, she makes Taffy a little too witty and polished. Taffy, however, is a capital character, and interesting to the last. If only Idds Mistake had been half its length, we should have called it as readable a family story as one could find.