19 NOVEMBER 1898, Page 27

The Children of Swift Creek. By Noel West (Mrs. M.

Cox). (Wells Gardner and Co.)—Mrs. Cox returns to the subject of ranch life and the prairies. She locates the scene of her story in the Western States. Her young heroes and heroines run risks of rattlesnakes, tornadoes, road-agents, and other amenities of life in the West, and have a lively time of it. Their adventures make an interesting and quite wholesome story.—We have received a fourth edition of For Old Sake's Sake, by Stella Austin (same publishers).