14 NOVEMBER 1891, Page 25

Brave and True, and other Stories. By Gregson Gow. (Blackie.)

—Simplicity is the note of these stories, which appear intended above all things to demonstrate how the highest virtues may flourish under the humblest or almost infantile conditions. " Brave and True," which is the first and most ambitious in the collection, is rather ill-compacted ; but " Johnnie Tupper's Temptation," although it is chiefly about a little boy's taking a top that does not belong to him, runs smoothly, and, in the eyes of little boys at all events, will seem to have a good deal of genuine plot-interest. Altogether, this is one of those very few volumes which are adapted for reading aloud to very little children in the nursery.