24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

Scenes of Child - Life, in Colloquial French. By Mrs. G. Frazer.

(Macmillan and Co.) —Mrs. Frazer tells us that she has written this little book "with the twofold object of teaching English children my native tongue, and of amusing them." We think she will, at any rate, succeed in doing the latter; though we question if her small readers will not be disposed to cavil at some of bibe's sayings and doings. We fancy he will strike them as unnaturally precocious in some respects and impossibly babyish in others.