19 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 25

The Green Toby Jug, and The Princess who Lived Opposite

: Stories for Little Children. By Mrs. Edwin Hohler. (Thomas Nelson and Sons.)—These are pretty stories, but they are marred by their lack of probability. We question if they will be much appreciated by the small readers for whom they are intended, who are—as their elders have often cause to know—exceedingly acute critics. We think, too, that the writer, in her wish to avoid the error of those well-meaning but mischievous persons who make grievous offences out of childish faults, has rushed into the opposite extreme. It seems scarcely wise to teach children that they may be as disobedient and as naughty as they please, so long as they are not selfish.