30 JANUARY 1932, Page 24

THE MOST UNFORTUNATE DAY OF MY LIFE. By Maria Edgeworth.

(Cobden-SanderSon. 4s. 6d.)—The title story, here printed for the first time, is unlikely to be read nowadays in the spirit intended by the author, but it offers a different sort of amusement, and is a good commentary on the changed status of the Parent. Robert, who spent such an unfortunate day, now shares a volume with several other of the impatient children, drawn with such savagery by the late Miss Edgeworth ; but Rosa- mund, with her gallant longing for the purple jar. will ..continue to-be Me-favourite: -