Pueris Reverentia. By the Author of "The Fight at Dame
Europa's School." (Brown, Salisbury.)—Mr. Fiddlebags, an assist- ant-master at a great school which is here called " Switchamt sends up one Charlie Tremlett, for a flogging. Charlie conceives an elaborate revenge. This is to go abroad with Mr. F. as his travelling tutor. As he can talk French and German with ease, and as the tutor is exceptionally helpless and ignorant of life, he flatters himself that he will have many opportunities of reversing their theoretical relation. This hope is fulfilled, and the story which grows out of it is sufficiently amusing and not without its serious meaning also. The author lets us have not a few obiter dicta which are of various value. Few English readers will differ from his contemptuous estimate of German student duels. On the other hand, when he finds fault with the lateness of the hour at which cricket-matches begin, he seems to have forgotten the dew, which often prohibits an early start.
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