First Steps in Scouting. By Robert E. Young. (James Brown
and Son. 1d.)—Our enthusiastic and exuberant friends, the Boy Scouts, have risen so finely to the needs of the present emergency as fully to justify the hopes of their gallant founder. The public at large hardly know, perhaps, how many tests a Boy Scout has to pass before ho is eligible to wear even the second-class badge. We strongly commend to such readers a perusal of Commissioner Young's extremely interesting manual, which is intended to give boys full instruction on those tests. The first article of the Scout Law is that " a Scout's honour is to be trusted "—and this is no mere idle boast. Not less salutary at the present time, perhaps, is the article which states that "a Scout smiles and whistles under
all circumstances. . . . Scouts never grouse at hardships, nor whine at each other, nor swear when put out."—The same publishers send us a reprint of Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys, by W. Baden-Powell (1s. net), which is well worth reading now that the Sea Scouts are in active employment at the Government's request.
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