Reine's Kingdom. By L. E. Tiddeman. (National Society's Depository.)—A somewhat
silly story. We do not believe that any lady would have been quite so foolish or so ill-bred as Miss Ferran; and we sincerely hope that no girl of seventeen was ever such a prig as the heroine. The utmost that can be said for the tale is that it has a good moral.
We are glad to offer again our customary greeting to sundry volumes of periodicals which call for notice at this time :— Sunday Reading for the Young (Wells Gardner, Dayton, and Co.) fulfils the excellent purpose which its title announces, with much success. The illustrations—we see the names of Gordon Browne, A. G. Walker, Helen Miles, among the artists—are particularly good.—With this may be mentioned Raton's Sunday Pleasure for the Young (same publishers), a volume of miscellanies suggested by and partly republished from the magazine.—Other volumes for the young, each with merits and claims of its own, are Little Folks (Cassell and Co.), intended for children who can read fairly well and are some way progressed in knowledge ; and The Rosebud Annual (James Clarke and Co.), suitable for younger chil- dren.—For these latter we have also The Child's Own Magazine (S.S.U.) and The Children's Treasury (T. Nelson and Sons).
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