A Little Princess. By Frances Hodgson Burnett. (F. Warne and
Co. 6s.)—Mrs. Burnett made a certain child, Sarah Crewe by name, the heroine of a play; and she has now put the play into a story, adding to it various incidents and characters ; and a very charming story it makes. Sarah is brought over to England by her father, and placed in an expensive school, where she is surrounded by all possible luxuries and splendour. They do not spoil her ; she is unfailingly kind and generous, though she has a temper of her own. Then comes a change of fortune ; the luxuries disappear, and Sarah is turned into a drudge. How it all works out for good the reader must discover for himself. It is admirably managed by Mrs. Burnett, who contrives with her "Indian gentleman" and his servant Ram Dass to give a touch of the "Arabian Nights" to her tale. Ram Dass is quite of the good-genie kind.
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