Peter the Pilgrim. By L. T. Meade. (W. and R.
Chambers. 3s. 6d.)—Little Peter Rankin thinks that he will go on pilgrimage, and starts accordingly. London does well enough for the City of Destruction; but he finds it difficult to make other places and people fit in with the story. It is a sort of fancy which an imaginative child may well have. Mrs. Meade constructs a very pretty little story out of it. The farmer and his wife, the benevolent lady who takes the part of Charity, and Peter's sister, the rough-and-ready Loo, are all interesting people.—Little Hiss Sunshine, by Gabrielle E. Jackson (Jarrold and Sons, 3s. 6d.), takes us into a very different world. Abiah Davis, the close-fisted Yankee farmer, in a very characteristic sketch. How he is turned into something better Mrs. Jackson tells us in this interesting story, with its racy dialect and vigorously drawn sketches of life. It is always hard to believe that a Scrooge can be taught the Christmas lesson ; but we should lose more than an inexhaustible subject for the tale-writer's art if we put it among things im- possible.
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