The Child of the Caravan. By E. M. Green. Illustrated
by Edith Scannell. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This is a very pathetic, almost too pathetic story. There are not many, we fancy, who will read it from beginning to end dry-eyed. Little " Curly " is the dearest of boys. His patience, courage, and simplicity are touching beyond measure. The author does not attempt to give us any clue to his origin. That he is gently born is clear, and the sorrow of his unknown parents is another element, though un- expressed, in the tragedy of his fate. Unhappily, too, one cannot but believe that such stories are true to facts, so far at least as the harshness of those who make a gain out of the precocious powers of these unhappy children is concerned. More power to the hands of those who would put a stop to this accursed traffic ! It is well contrived by the writer of the story that, even as fax as this world is concerned, poor little " Curly's " life was not altogether wasted. The illustrations, from a pencil which we have more than once before had occasion to praise, are very good.
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