Kingscote Stories. By T'lla Baker. (Kegan Paul.)—This is one of
sundry volumes in which a number of stories written by the late Miss Baker have been collected. They remind us somewhat of Miss Edgeworth. Besides the stories, there are in this volume six biographical notices, pleasantly written, and treating their several subjects adequately within a moderate compass. Miss Baker had this note of a right-minded person, that she could appreciate Dr. Johnson. One of her tales obtained a prize in the Vegetarian. Another seems to have been written in the interests of the anti-vaccinators. At least the hero, after a creditable career, wins fresh praise by "being resolutely obstructive though not actually hostile" (what does this mean 7), in his character of Chairman of the Board of Guardians, to the practice of vaccination.
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