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Those who sympathize with the Boy Scout movement and are

gratified to see the Church of Rome very militant and triumphant here on earth will enjoy Beardless Counsellors. It could not safely be put into the hands of an impressionable Protestant child, though few -children are as impressionable as Miss Hallack's or so. ready to give counsel. The atmo- sphere of mysticism and ecstasy, death-bed and conversion, is relieved by a faint snobbishness. This is a pity, for Miss itiallack's writing has elbquenee and vitality and wit-.

• Without Conditions. By Agnes Mure Mackenzie. London : Heinemann. (es.j