The Mysterious Twins. By Brenda Girvin. (Cassell and Co. 3s.
6d.)-This is certainly, an amusing story, but surely a little farcical. However, the resemblance of twins and the strange vonseiauenees that come from it have supplied a plot for more than one comedy since the days of Menander, and Miss Girvin is quite -within. her rights in making use of it.---Ethelreda the Ready. 'By Mrs. George-4e Horne Vaizey. (Same publishers. 3s. 6d.)- Ethelreda's family suffers a reverse of fortune, and her plans have to be. altered accordingly. She does not go to the school which the desires ; and we hear how she fares at that which is not to her mind. She has-a very high opinion of herself; Mrs. Vaizey tells
us with her accustomed skill how she is taught to moderate it.
Bosom Friends, by Angela Brazil (T. Nelson and Sons, 2s. 6d.); is a story chiefly concerned with two girls, who represent in their way the two apprentices. One is Isobel, and the other Isabelle, and both have the same surname, though differently spelt. On this similarity and difference much depends, and Miss Brazil makes a pretty little story out of it.
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