Rider's Leap. By Frederick Langbridge. (Hatchards.) —Mr. Langhridge, besides being
able to tell a story well, has a pretty gift of humour, a gift much appreciated by the unhappy men who have to struggle with Christmas literature. These books have many good qualities, but very seldom fun, leant of all the funny ones. Mr. Faddle, the schoolmaster, Dr. Maunders, the boozing doctor—who finds " constant sickness at the Keys "—even the Nightlights, father and son, in their grim way, are amusing. As for the hero's adventures and escapee, they are most thrilling. Indeed, at p. 112 we come to a picture of him going headforemost down a precipice that almont made us close the book. It seemed that there must have been an end of him. But there were three hundred pages to come, and we knew that he had to live through them. Live through them, of course, be does, and shows himself a fine, spirited fellow, whom we are quite sorry to part with.
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