Master and Maid. By Mrs. L. Allen Harker. (John Murray.
6s.)—Lallie Clonmell, not knowing exactly what she is to do when her father has gone off to shoot big game at the other end of the world, invades the house of the friend of her childhood, Tony Bevan, alias " Bruiser Bevan," who has a House at Hamchester College. He is the "Master" and she is the "Maid,"—we must congratulate Mrs. Harker on the felicity of the title. What she does there ; how she holds her own against Miss Foster, Tony Bevan's housekeeper ; how she turns the heads of masters and prefects ; how she startles Hamchester Town with her honi-soit-gui- mal-y-pense ways,—all this and much else may be read with quite unmixed pleasure. The story is absolutely wholesome; and there is something like genius in the description of school life.
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