2 NOVEMBER 1912, Page 13

The Brownie of Weirdlaw. By Cyril Grey. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—

If the girls for whom this book is meant are not annoyed at the conventional beginning, they will find a pleasantly written story of the brave struggles against misfortune of an excellent Scotch family at the time of the Reform Bill. The beginning, however, is not well worked out, for how could a doctor who, wo are told, overworks himself to the point of blindness, and his devoted wife, have time, even if they had the inclination, for such wicked worldly gaieties as might be justly punished by loss of sight and death ?