9 DECEMBER 1893, Page 23

Under a. Spell. By Ellerton Gray. Illustrated by Wallis Mackay.

(Jerrold and Sons.)—The victim of the spell is a lazy schoolboy, who falls asleep in a cornfield on the way to school. What he hears, for his ears are open to the language of birds, beasts, and flowers, is most uncomplimentary to himself ; and he goes home a wiser and a better boy. It is quite a little fairy- story with the very best of morals worked into it, and it is prettily illustrated,—in fact, just the book for an idle boy.