13 NOVEMBER 1897, Page 25

The Adventures of a Stowaway. By Fred. Whishaw. (Griffith, Ferran,

Browne, and Co.)—It must be confessed that the lachry- mose little boy who is introduced to us in the first chapter, and to whom his schoolfellows not unnaturally give the name of "Alice," develops very rapidly. It is a little surprising when he fastens the sheets together and lets himself down from the dormitory window ; but this achievement pales before the feats of presentee of mind and courage which he afterwards performs. However this may be, the story is a very readable one. The scene is laid, for the most part, in Northern India, perhaps the most interesting part of the world to us just now. The hero tells the story himself, and does it in a very natural and unaffected way.