Originally published as ‘Sussex Stories.’ Very lifelike, and two at least can be read with admirable effect—namely, ‘Fairy Gold’ and another bringing in the accident to the London steamboat ‘Princess Alice.’ The others have been tried, but do not seem as well liked. Perhaps they are too wordy.
600. Pictures of Cottage Life. By M. Poole. (Macmillan) 3s. 6d.
These are thoroughly delightful. There is an old woman with what she thinks is a skeleton warning in her eye, also a deserted wife and an adopted child, who all are completely real and as touching as they are quaint.
601. The Cottage Next Door. By Helen Shipton. (S.P.C.K.) 1s.
The taming of a rough lad through the helplessness of the pretty little silly wife and babies whom his brute of a brother abandons for a while.
602. True Gold. (Church Extension Society) 2s.
A family at the gold-diggings, where the wife realises more at last by making ginger-beer than the husband by all his find of nuggets, and her faithful uprightness and industry are the saving of all.
603. Harry’s Discipline. By Laura Lane. (S.P.C.K.) 1s. 6d.
A good-natured careless young railway porter neglects his mother till she is almost starved. The lesson is chiefly meant for the sons, but it deeply affects the mothers, and is a warning to them not to spoil their boys.