THE SATURDAY REVIEW.
"A more delightful book for girls than this one we have seldom read. On little Lady Patty, the Earl's Granddaughter alone, is lavished enough of character-drawing to stock an average novel. She and her delightful little friends, the Colonel's daughters, are living and breathing girls, and more good might be done by the tale of their doings than by many a volume of sermons.... The book, as we have said, is entirely delightful, full of health and humour. It is refreshing to be able to praise anything so unreservedly."