19 DECEMBER 1863, Page 21

Lottie Lonsdale. By:Emma Jane Worboise. (Virtue, Brothers, and Co.)—A story

more likely to be popular with girls than boys. The authoress is strongly opposed to Puseyism, and depicts with much fooling the sufferings of milliners' apprentices. So for as the story inculcates consideration for those whom we employ and the duty of active charity, no exception can be taken to it ; but would it not have been better to make no allusion to "the social evil 2" Surely that can- not be properly handled in a story-book, and is not a subject which it is desirable that very young people should be led to consider.