A Cambridge Staircase. By the Author of " A Day
of My Life at Eton." (Sampson Low and Co.)—The writer has made a very de- cided advance on his last book, about which we felt bound to express an unfavourable opinion. We may say, in fact, that he has got back to the " form " of his first and very successful venture, "A Day of My Life at Eton." The fun of the sketches that he gives us in this volume is quiet and in good-taste, nor do they contain any serious exag- geration. The etperieuce of the " endless sets of new china," necessi- tated by breakage on the part of the bed-maker, may be genuine, though it is certainly exceptional. These people commonly break very little, or nothing, we should say, to be compared with the destruction wrought by the average housemaid. Altogether, this is a pleasant picture of the life of many men at the University, a life free from vice and extravagance, but somewhat wanting in energy,—reducing, for instance,' in practice, the " eight hours' reading" of theory to something less than four.. The author, we may venture to hope, is better than his hero.
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