She has become one of those few writers of English fiction no one of whose books one can afford to leave unread.'-- _Review of Reviews._ 'They are neatly and incisively written, with an unfailing strain of humour running through them.

Altogether, this is a volume to read, and we like its get-up--in paper covers on the French model, only neater and more substantial.'-- _Daily Mail._ 'In type, make-up, and size, it is exactly the volume to buy at the book-stall and slip into such convenient receptacle as you may chance to carry with you in the railway carriage.

It costs you no more than a few illustrated papers, and is more handy to bestow when you have read it.
As for the contents, they are eight slight stories, in Mrs.Clifford's best manner.

Yet, simple and unpretending as they are, they contain the real novelist's touch.

There is nature, drama, character, in these short histories, and, above all, that command of simple pathos which Mrs.
Clifford has more than most writers.