A Castle of Dreams. By Netts. Syrett. (Chatto and Windus.
Gs.)—This is a story of a girl, the daughter of an impecunious and irresponsible Irish Peer, who lives almost abandoned in an old Irish castle. By the usual fortunate accident, a delightful scholar settles in the neighbourhood and. educates her. Other- wise she would have had no teaching at all. The pictures of "Bridgit's" life in Ireland, of her extreme cleverness when receiving her father's rowdily smart English friends, and of the trick she plays them are all well drawn ; but Miss Syrett should really have avoided making two mistakes in quoting one lino of Keats. She
writes : " To fade upon the midnight without pain," instead of " To cease upon the midnight with no pain."
The book is slight, but it is written with considerable grace, and the snatches of fairy-lore With which it is interspersed are full of a plaintive and-elusive charm. •
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