18 DECEMBER 1915, Page 25

The Orient Pearls. By Shovona Devi. (Macmillan and Co. 2s.

6c1. net.)—This is a collection of fairy-stories, fables, and folk-.ore which may take a good place among the numerous books of this kind that now come to us from India. If the English is the unaided work of Sir Rabindranath Tagore's niece, it is a remarkable achievement ; little naivetes of expres- sion and unexpected terms add piquancy rather than detract from the effect.