19 DECEMBER 1891, Page 25

Changed Lots. By Frances Armstrong. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—It would

have been better to label this story a " romance ;" then we should not have tried it by any standard of actual life. The main idea is not unlike that made familiar by "The Prince and the Pauper." Two children, one the daughter of rich parents, the other coming from a gipsy encampment, change frocks, and in consequence "lots," and the change re- mains undetected on either side, the rich house or the gipsy tent, for several years. And at last the gipsy child turns out to be the lost twin-sister of the other. If that is not a romance, we do not know what is. But, taking the plot for granted, the story is highly readable. Dorothy's adventures (Dorothy is the rich man's daughter) occupy the greater part of the book, and are well told.