An engaging little girl, devoted to her butterfly-hunting brothers, but waking to high and deep aspirations, which find their first fulfilment in the discovery of an old cottage woman’s lost son.
182. Grumble. By Mrs. Erskine. (S.P.C.K.) 1s.
The pinch of agricultural depression felt but not understood in the nursery drives a little damsel to try to mend matters by wishing in a fairy ring.
183. The Birthday. By Lady Harriet Howard. (Masters) 3s. 6d.
A charming set of children in high life, simple, natural, and wholesome, a favourite of many years’ standing.
184. The White Gipsy. By Annette Lyster. (S.P.C.K.) 3s.
A child picked up by gipsies after a railway accident, and bred up among them till recovered by his mother.
185. Decima’s Promise. By Agnes Giberne. (Nisbet) 3s. 6d.
This is made to a servant girl not to reveal an accident to a young child of which both alike are guilty. It results in the poor child’s idiocy, and thus would be a wholesome warning to nurses, but Decima’s other troubles are rather out of their beat.
186. In the Marsh. By Bessie Curteis. (S.P.C.K.) 2s.