1 DECEMBER 1906, Page 10

Bob Merchant's Scholarship. By Ernest Prothero. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)-Here we

have a story of adventure, the scene of action being what is called the educational ladder. Bob Merchant wins a scholarship at " Meridale Road Higher Grade Board School," which takes him to Orville College, a first-grade school. The situation is quite real; every one who knows boys will be ready to allow for the existence of some who object to what they call the "town slams." The subject is worth treating, and should not be less interesting than the perils by flood and field which commonly form the themes of these stories. As may be imagined, we leave Bob with his foot on another rung of the ladder. Not a few readers, we imagine, will like to know how he succeeded in getting it there.