5 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 10

Four on an Island. By L. T. Meade. (W. and

R. Chambers.) —Mrs. Meade takes us to the coast of Brazil, where the " four "— two girls and two boys—are carried out to sea in a boat, land on a desert island, and contrive, by the help of an opportunely discovered wreck, to live there for some three months. Crusoe stories have, we fancy, a charm about them which is not readily worn out—what child has not fancied himself a Crusoe at scam time or other ?—and in the hands of so practised a writer as Mrs. Meade are sure to have a success. Four on an Island is a favourable specimen of its class.