The Fourth Form Deteotivea; by Christine Chaundler (Nisbet, Os. net),
is an amusing story, in which some girls try to emulate Sherlock Holmes in discovering the thief who has taken various trinkets. They make laughable mistakes in the course of their search. A swimming match is well described in the opening pages.-The heroine of Loyal to the School, a pleasant story by Angela Brazil (Blackie, Os. net), is a clever girl who has through poverty to act as a governess-pupil and who, nevertheless, has a good deal of fun at school. The meanness of some rich relations is satirized.-Three Pie Idea In and Out of School, by May Baldwin (Chambers, 5s. net), is a lively tale of three small children who are left in the care of a young unmarried aunt. It is well written and full of incident.-The Two Form-Captains, by Elsie Jeannette Oxenham (Chambers, 5s. net), is a story of two boarding-schools, one for boys and the other for girls, in Switzerland. The ordinary school experiences have an unusual flavour and are agreeably described.
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