18 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 9

The Wonder - Workers. By A. O'D. Bartholeyns. (Hurst and Blackett. Gs.)—This

is a pretty book, containing legends of the flowers which have, as so many have, sacred associations, and of kindred subjects. The stories are told to little Pansy in the church which she has been helping to decorate, by the Abbess of the convent which had once adjoined it, by the Crusader whose effigy lay in the chancel, by his brother the great traveller, by the Gargoyle-Goblin, who turns out to be better than he looks, by the Lady Elizabeth, who had restored the church, and by an , Archdeacon, whose monument was the latest addition to the chaucel. All this is cleverly managed.'