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The Round Robin: a Gathering of Fact, Fiction, incident, and

Adven- ture. Edited by "Old Merry." (F. Warne and Co.)—Boys will not speculate too curiously on the meaning of the title of this book, nor will they be very apt to question its appropriateness. It will suffice for them that the book itself contains a great variety of stories and interest- ing papers, introducing them to shipwrecked sailors, ill-used schoolboys, German brigands, imprisoned princesses, and the gods of the old Norse mythology. Plenty of matter here to excite the curiosity of those omni- vorous readers whose thirst for knowledge has not yet been slaked by too deep a draught of the Greek grammar, and we feel sure that the present book will be warmly welcomed.