Christopher Deane : a Character Study at School and College.
By E. if Lacon Watson. (Elkin Mathews 6s.) Christopher .Deane is a charming book, not in the least like a novel, though as a novel we suppose we must accept it. It reads like a real reminiscence of a real character well worth carrying in heart and memory. Christopher is a "good fellow" through and through, and though he does nothing at all remarkable, the chronicle of his school and college days, the story of his first love fora girl who was not worth caring for, and the glimpses of his life, first at home in the country rectory, where there was no money, but an ideal father and mother and a spirit of content that made the days pass with the gaiety of a perpetual picnic, make delightful reading. The later picnic in London lodgings with bit friend and biographer is good to read about also, and altogether the book, though slight, is one to be read and remembered with gratitude.
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