Number Three Winifred Place. By Agnes Giberne. (Nisbet.)— The pretty
surprises of this story will make it a general favourite.
Niece-in-law and uncle-in-law go to lodge in the same house, and apparently without knowing each other. Only apparently, how- ever, for the eccentric philanthropist, Colonel Smyth, or 31or- +daunt, really knows who is in the same house with him, and, as a matter of fact, has gone to it because his connection by marriage is there. The latter's little girl fascinates him ; and when her mother is lost in a fog, it seems the most natural thing in the world that he should play the part of her guardian. Meanwhile, the mother finds her way to the Colonel's sisters, and there is, of course, a much-needed family reconciliation all round. Colonel Smyth, little Rhona, and poor Bertha, the lodging-house keeper's orphan niece, are delightful pictures ; indeed, there is not a slovenly
sketch in the whole book. Perhaps Colonel Smyth is made some- what too heroic a figure, but the readers of Number Three Winifred Place will make no objection to this.
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