25 JANUARY 1879, Page 21

Running Away. A Story for Children. (James Nisbet and Co.)—

This is a very spirited and charming little tale,—a moral tale, we admit, professedly so, indeed,—but so full of life and common-sense, that it is not, like most moral tales, aggravating, and contrives to teach a fine theological lesson, without obtruding either morality or religion on the reader. It is a story children will enjoy, and which will do them good. It is not very often that both these ends are attained at once so well as they are in Running Away.