6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 13

The Little Colonists. By Theo. Gift. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)

—" Penguin-Land" is the sub-title of the story, and the scene is laid in the Falkland. Islands, which seem a more endurable place of residence than one would have thought. Novelty is always attractive; and a story which takes possession, so to speak, of a new province in fiction, comes so far recommended. The Little Colonists has merits of its own, but the new and interesting sur- roundings which it introduces to the reader add to its charms.