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Alwyn Morton ; Ms School and Schoolfellows. A tale of

St. Nicholas' Grammar School. With illustrations. (Sampson Low.).—This is a good schoolboys' tale, modelled, of course, as most schoolboys' tales now are, on Tom Brown's School Days. Still it has enough life and character of its own to stand on its own merits. " Orator Simmons " is a character of some spirit and not, as far as we remember, an imitation.