14 NOVEMBER 1891, Page 25

Father Christmas's Stories. By Louise Alice Riley. (John Hogg.) —It

was rather risky, perhaps, of the author of this volume of stories to follow in the wake of so many writers who in the past have endeavoured, under one of the many disguises assumed by Father Christmas, to make animate and inanimate Nature edify and entertain children. It is to Mrs.—or Miss—Riley's credit tnat she has endeavoured to be at once simple and original, and has succeeded. There is a great deal of genuine humour in " Tabby's Memories " and " Jumble-Land " more particularly. In all respects, indeed, this is a volume to be heartily commended.