19 OCTOBER 1895, Page 26

The Life of a Kite. By Ascott R. Hope. (S.P.C.K.)—This

is a very clever little story, told in Mr. Ascott Hope's best manner. It is in the manner of Hans Christian Andersen. The Kite talks to other items which he meets—a golf-ball among them, now for the first time found in literature of this kind—and is talked to by them. It is a happy touch when the schoolmistress, finding the now shattered creature on the shore, picks up the cane which had been its backbone, and lays it by for use, possibly for the correction of the Kite's old master.