18 DECEMBER 1897, Page 23

Exiled from School. By Andrew Home. (A. and C. Black.)

—This is an extravaganza. George Kirby, destined for Dr. Bradley's school at Sandport, and Sidney Hardy, who is to go to the Grammar School at the same place, meet at the station. Hardy, who is the victim of a mysterious terror, wants to escape altogether, and goes as a stowaway on board a Norwegian brig. Kirby prefers the Grammar School, and takes Hardy's name. That is the situation, brought about mainly by the skilful management of a certain Jem Patterson. It is eminently farcical, but is not the less amusing. dem Patterson, in par- ticular, is a very entertaining fellow. The melodramatic part, with the robbery and terrorism, is but poor stuff; but it had to be to make the rest of the plot even mechanically possible.