Volume 104 — OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

"Have you read," asks one of the Baron's Assistants of his Chief, "Miss Braddon's Christmas Annual? It is entitled, The Misletoe Bough, and contains some of the best short stories I have read lately. One of them, 'In Mr. Cartwright's Library,' is a remarkable combination of quaint, dry humour, and literary skill. Who is the clever author? But here are other stories, too, that interest and please, and, not least among them, a charming sketch, by the ever welcome editress. Bravo, Miss Braddon!

"Brownies and Rose-leaves, by Roma White (Innes & Co.), is a pretty little book, prettily written, prettily illustrated by Leslie Brooke, and prettily bound," he continues. "Miss White has a charming knack of writing musical verse, simple, rhythmical, delightful. To children and their parents, I say, take my tip (the only one parents will get at this season), and read Roma White's dainty, delicate, fresh and breezy book."