20 NOVEMBER 1869, Page 23

13epizebah : a Christmas Story for Children. By Luoy Field.

(Griffiths and Farran.)—A, bright, healthy little tale of a small child stolen by tramps and rescued for civilized life by a kind-hearted old woman living on a solitary common. How the foundling made friends with a white carrier-pigeon and its beautiful mistress, and how the lady and the bird combined to save the child from being recaptured by her old enemies, €5 told with simplicity, grace, and spirit. The plot is somewhat incom- plete, but the author half promisee a sequel, in which, we suppose, the little heroine will be restored to her parents.