5 NOVEMBER 1910, Page 59

Brasilia the Second. By H. Louisa Bedford. (S.P.C.K. Is. 6d.)

—The experienced reader of tales knows the future of "Drusila tha Second" when, being then seven years of age, she makes acquaintance with a young man who comes in to look at the church where she sits thinking about many things, especially how greatly she would like a big brother. Much happens to Drusilla; her father comes back to England with a second wife; the nave rea, though she is not saeva or pulida, is not always easy to get on with ; there is a brother, too, but he is not quite of the kind wished for. A very pleasant story is made up out of these incidents and characters, and everything ends as it should.