Bar/on! Bridge. By the Rev. H. C. Adams. (Routledge.)—A story
of school-boy life, with the usual attractions of games, fights, feats, and prizes. Everything is told with spirit, if not always probable in itself, but it is the law of school-boy nature that nothing should be impossible to it, except learning. When, therefore, one boy defies a crowd of bargemen, and a small boy pushes one of them into the water, we recognize the power which rules over the sports of school-boys, and only forsakes the boys at the hour of lessons. Mr. Adams, however, has a more potent dens ez mac.hind always at hand. The Mayor of Barford supports the boys. The police are ready to interfere in their favour. A clergyman knows the secret of one of the boys, and though he will not tell it, lets it be found out at the right moment. With all this help the story runs smoothly, and will no doubt be popular.
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