Poy coon a neat Bie Pintame pai hey ae penis meos a rmeetes settee cat te, l-Dark Side Out," is not likely to be forgotten by anyone who had the Jzood fortune to read it. From that point of view alone, i.e. the high, Titerary quality, this two life story lof two children will make its appeal [There are, too, lessons to be learned by. those' who compare favourably nursery discipline of the Vietorlang Jwith the "non-repression" " policy Jwhich governs. the "smaller families to-day. The stupid severities practised by ignorant nurses Atty years ago were doubtless responsible for much that went wrong. with highly strung children; fear having played a considerable part in mut~
In connection with the nurse who Judd sway in her mother's household, Lady Acland recalls that "somehow Jshe made naughtiness, and its accompaniment of scolding and—punishment, a constant element in our tives" The "Don't? type of nurse (and even mother) was caricatured the comic papers of last century. "What's Jimmy doing?" she calls Jout to one of her charges, "Nothing, is the reply. "Well, then, tell him not to." And how familiar we of that era were with the constant, threat, "Ti tell yer Ma!" (which, of course, never worried us in the feast) and "Yer Pa shall hear all Jabout you, Master Johnnie"—which Jala. The only excuse for Milly's nurse was that she was a liverish subject, and, therefore, blame. must fee attached fo Lady Actand's charm-ug mother who ought never to have Jengaged this yellow-visaged person 10 given to "sikkedakes:"
The second half of the book, the tory of Ellen's brief Uttle span, 18 Jalmost too poignant to dwell upon. [An intensely human child of a won-[derful spirituality, the deeply applic led religious sense was doubtless Inherited from two preceding genjerations—an integral pant of their lives. One line only in illustration—'"Me-an-you loving each other," Ellen remarked to her moth really JGod loving us." The happy. childhood of Lady Aciand's children, despite the gloom of the war among which their earlier years were spent, Is well mown to their many London friends. The tremendous amount of enjoyment Ellen and her brothers of out of their Devonshire home makes good reading. Town children score maybe in the long run—thelr keen intelligence and alertness making a fine kicking-off ground for the enthralment of country Ufe, ite freedom and its infinite varloty— ant, era en tata
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