Pour la Petrie, et Autres Cooties d'Enfants. Par Jetta S.
Wolff. (J. N. Dent and Sons. is. 4d.)—Miss Wolff has a charming knack in writing these French books for English children. She makes her English readers "prisoners of their own language," for there is no word in English from beginning to end. But being an Englishwoman herself, she understands perfectly, and provides for, the peculiar difficulties of English boys and girls. People of an older generation, may well sigh that there were no books of this kind when they set out painfully to learn French. Of the ten separate narratives er dialogues before us, seven are by Miss Wolff herself, and we could wish that there had been ten, because in reprodiecing the living French language as one hears children chattering it at play in the Bois or the Champs Blysoes she displays a distinct humour of her own.
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