10 DECEMBER 1887, Page 9

' A Golden Age. By Ismay Thorne. (Hatchards.)—Three boys, Penthary

Carlisle, Trelawny Hamilton, and his brother, Polwynth- or, rather, two boys and a child—form themselves into an association which has for its motto the rhyme,—

" By Pol, Tee, and Pen, you may know the Cornishmen!"

Polwynth being admitted, in spite of his youth, because the three cannot otherwise be made up. Polwynth, however, is the real hero of the story, which consists of a number of little adventures that nearly drive his natural guardians—his mother, and Sarah, his nurse —out of their minds. There is plenty of fun in the book, and some graver matter connected with the old friend who haa given Polwynth his curious name.