The Storehouse of Stories. Edited by Charlotte M. Yonge. (Mac-
millan.)—Miss Yonge has revived in this volume certain favourites which delighted the childhood of a former generation. The strangers—for strangers they are to most readers of the present day—look a little odd in their last-century costume, but they can scarcely fail to be welcome. We own to preferring them to most at least of the books which this age pro- vides in sueh splendid profusion for the younger of its children. They are simpler and less pretentious. They have the crowning merit of not giving the impression that the author is perpetually looking over his shoulder to see bow the grown-up people appreciate the clever talk with which he is regaling the young ones. The volume before us con- tains "Evenings at my Grandmother's," which may be compared with the well-known "Evenings at Home." "Elements of Morality," a story adapted to English life by Mary Wolstoncroft, from the German of C. G. Salzman, a charming story, with all the quaint and formal humour in which our grandmothers delighted ; "A Puzzle for a Curious Girl ;" and "Blossoms of Morality." Miss Yonge deserves hearty thanks for restoring these departed ones to the living world.
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