19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 47

Sturdy and Strong. By G. A. Henty. (Bleak, and Son.)—The

good boy who works and who never goes wrong here meets no again. This time he has a mother who is unable to work and goes to the infirmary, while the boy comes up to London to get employment, and meets with a success which ie surely much beyond what is usual. This is a thing which must be taken into account when such a story is written for boys. Tho character of the street,arab is well drawn; the difference between the well brought-up boy and his starving friend, and their ways of looking at the same thing, is particularly good. But we doubt whether the very saddest picture a man could

draw of the sufferings of those who are unsuccessful would deter a youngster from trying his fortune, and possibly becoming a " shudder" in a great city.