The Invisible Playmate, and W. V. her Book. By William
Canton. With 2 Illustrations by C. E. Brock. (Hodder and Stoughton. 3s. 6d.)—Somewhat similar in motive is the title-story of the collection of studies of child-life of which we welcome a new edition. The studies are pathetic, and have a ring of genuine experience, as also have many of the sayings and doings attributed to "W. V." One likes particularly some of the little girl's misapprehensions or misapplications of common words and phrases : her doubt as to whether it was a laburnum or a St. Bernard that discovered and saved travellers in the snow, and her critical impatience of the prohibition to "shoot rubbish here." Either big game or small deer she could have understood might need protection, but "who wants to shoot rubbish, father?" This, again, is not a book to give to children, though it will be an acceptable present to the friends of children.
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