The Naughty Girl of the Family. By Mrs. H. Mackarness.
Illus- trated by F. W. Lawson. (Routledge.)—The authoress of A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam gives us here a very pleasant story of home life. Both mothers and daughters will be the better for studying the relations that exist between Mrs. Deane, her daughters, and her governesses, and they will be amused at the same time. The family group is naturally drawn, and so is the country circle of which it is the centre ; the story, with plenty of interest in it, runs smoothly through schoolroom scenes, and croquet parties, and charade actings, and ends with the proper allowance of marriages. The Naughty Girl of the Family is as nice as the reader would naturally expect, and draws the prize in the matrimonial lottery. We must say a word in conclusion for Mr. Lawson 's illustrations, which are above the average. The fun in the "Big Lady's Toilet" and the pathos in "*hat Shall I Do ?" are both happily rendered.
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