24 APRIL 1909, Page 14

Charlotte Mary Yong() : an Appreciation. By Ethel Romance. (Mowbray

and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—The present generation certainly does not care for Miss Yonge's stories as did the last. Still, there must be many readers who will value this excellent bit of criticism. There is no "through-thick-and-thin" admiration here, but, as it seems to us, a very just and candid valuation of merits and defects. And the whole is illustrated in a quite delightful way by notices of the " Yonge" circle, her own kinsfolk, to begin with, the Robles, and not a few others, who had some- thing to do in moulding the forms taken by her literary activities.