" Scraps :" Only a Lad. 13y E. M. Green.
(Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—A. very touching story is this of self-sacrifice and heroism,— indeed, the end is almost too tragic, the agony, if we may use the expression, is really piled on too much. There is nothing in the way of physical happiness to relieve "Scraps'" history. From the day his mother• dies, and he is left alone with poor deformed Jim, it is one long trial, and gets harder and harder, though Jim gets into a home. The pathos of "Scraps" owes its force to the conviction one feels that quiet suffering is going on every minute among the very poor. Miss E. M. Green has written certainly one of the most touching stories of a street-arab, and if she had con- trived to incorporate a little more cheerfulness with it, we could have heartily recommended it to children. It is short and it is illustrated, and has faint but unmistakable High-Church leanings,—witness the drawing of the Canon, who might be a priest from his shaven pate.
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