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and their kindred. Miss Banks' longest tale, for instance, begins

by telling us how "Miss Mag Pyo had an ungovernable passion for all kinds of bright things," and "how she was sentenced

to imprisonment for life" for indulging this passion with. out restraint. There is amusing and, we may hope, instruc-

tive reading in these stories (there are ten in all), and at the very least the pictures will be found entertaining. Once or twice the author seems to forget the little folks for whom she is writing.