Fifty-two Stories of Life and Adventure for Boys. Fifty-two Stories
of Life and Adventure for Girls. By Alfred H. Miles. (Hutchinson and Co.)—Mr A. H. Miles is putting together a quite considerable number of volumes in what he now calls his" Fifty-two Library." Seventeen is the number at present reached, and there is no reason why it should not go on till it is at least four square,—till there are 6fty-two times fifty-two. We may reckon that all the readers that are interested in this kind of volume know pretty well its value. They have been pleased, and justly pleased. before, and they naturally expect to be so again. Mr. Miles tells us that the West, with its fresr life, has more adventures in it than we find in the more conventional East. He divides his "Boys' Stories" into five parts, which he entitles re- spectively, "Life and Adventure Out West," "Life and Adven- ture at Home and at School," "Life and Adventure in the Eastern World," "Life and Adventure in Boyhood and Youth," "Life and Adventure Ashore and Afloat." Somewhat similar tarts are to be found in the girls' volume. But the writers of the latter have, we suppose, been obliged to resort more to fiction than has been the case with the other. At pre- sent at least, adventure falls to the boy rather than to the girl, for though the temper is often there, the opportunity is absent. Joan of Arc and the Maid of Saragossa and Mary Ambree are, and probably always will be, exceptions.
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