20 FEBRUARY 1897, Page 22

The Austin Prise. By the Author of "Sin Months in

the Fourth." (Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a story of school life. The fault of its construction, as it appears to us, is that the interest culminates too soon. Generally there is something small about the life that is here described. As for the head-master, we are tired of these plagosi Orbilii.