28 FEBRUARY 1863, Page 23

A King Play. By Mrs. S. E. Freeman, author of

"Rose of Woodlee," &c. (Freeman.)—This is a kind of historical novelette, on the smallest possible scale, the subject of which is the story of Lambert Simnel. The title of "A King Play "is, it appears, that of the religions dramas enacted in the Middle Ages in churches and monasteries at Christmas, which generally represented the homage of the Three Kings at the cradle of Bethlehem ; so that its application in the present instance is, in fact, a sort of pun. The book is designed eicinsively for children.