A Modern Red Riding - Hood. By C. A. Jones. (Hatchards.)— There
is a certain family resemblance between this story and "Little Lord Fauntleroy," so far, at least, as one of the principal characters is concerned. Rupert Howard is strikingly like the little lord in his appearance and manners; nor are the circum- stances of his coming to his aunts' house wholly dissimilar. The aunts, or rather the ruling spirit of the two, had broken with the lad's father because he had married an Italian girl, and it is only when the father dies that the children are received in the old home. The little girl who may be supposed to be the heroine proper of the story has no particular prototype that we know of, certainly not the child of the nursery story. The resemblance here does not go much further than the red hood. We have no reason, however, to complain. The red hood is put to a very good use. The story, on the whole, is too sentimental, and the writing is wanting now and then in simplicity ; but it is certainly interesting and effective.
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