1 NOVEMBER 1902, Page 8

Sale's Sharpshooters. By Harold Avery. (T. Nelson and Sons 3s.

6d.)—This book for children makes very pleasant reading. It chronicles the formation and doings of a Volunteer corps of small boys; and as they are instrumental in the unmasking of a great jewel thief who poses as a Major, their term of service, though short, cannot be termed ineffectual. Solicitors seem to be more confiding people in fiction than in real life; we hardly think that in reality Mr. Sale would have entered into business negotiations with a man without discovering that there had never been a Major of his name in the regiment he professed to have retired from.