An Earl without an Earldom. By Scott Graham. (S. W.
Partridge and Co. 3s. 61)—The reader will not want for sensa- tions when he comes to read about the Earl. He finds two to begin with; the very independent agent who consents to act as agent for the millionaire owner of Westwood Hall turns out, as any one with a discerning eye soon perceives, to be the Earl of Aylingford, and Dr. Robertson, the struggling doctor who is without a loaf for his children in chap. 1, is charged by a patient with having committed a murder in chap. 5. This was all the harder on him because the said Patient cured herself of neuralgia by doing it. We cannot but think that such things are out of place in books of this kind.—Diana's Decision, by Mrs. Wilson Fox (S.P.C.K., 2s. 6d.), suggests by its opening incident a nice question in morals,—is it right to cheat into life, so to speak, a mother dying of grief for the loss of her new-born babe by foisting on her an infant procured elsewhere? However this may be, the complication thus brought about makes a readable story in the author's hands.—A simpler story, and not the worse for that, is Heroine, Or—u by Isabella B. Locker (same publishers, 2s.) By what- ever name we may choose to call her, Winnie is certainly a pleasing young person to read about.—For younger readers we have Me and Nobbles, by Amy Le Feuvre (R.T.S., 28.) Miss Le Feuvre can always tell an interesting story, and never fails to enforce an excellent moral.—We have received a "revised edition" of Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, by Margaret Sidney (T. Fisher Unwin, 6s.)
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