14 DECEMBER 1867, Page 24

Gerald and Harry; or, the Boys in the North. By

Emilia Marryat Norris. (Griffith and Farran.)—How the boys came to be in the North, and what they did there, will be seen on reference to Mrs. Norris's story. If the adventures of Gerald and Harry are produced in a rather roundabout way, and if every single adventure is a link in a chain of education which most boys will think wild and unnatural, the events of the story are of such a kind as will reconcile its readers to any amount of improbabilities. Bears, wolves, walruses, lynxes, and Laplanders are splendid materials for a book of this kind, and when two boys are lost in Norway, taken captives, subjected to hardships, and liberated by a cunning stratagem, we may be sure that their history will ho followed with interest.