18 JANUARY 1890, Page 23

The Happiest Christmas. By Edna Lyall. (W. and R. Chambers.)

—Jack Radcliffe and Joan, his sister, are two quite possible children, with a "great deal of human nature in them," ready to quarrel, and apt to be selfish ; in short, a long way off being angels. Still, they are capable of learning that the best happiness is in doing good to others, and they do learn it in a very happily contrived way. This is a pretty story, with a moral delicately conveyed. It has the special object of benefiting the Children's Hospital for Diseases of the Hip-Joint, in Queen's Square.