24 SEPTEMBER 1892, Page 26

Play - Hours and Half - Holidays. By the Rev. S. C. Atkinson. (Macmillan.)—This

is a new edition of a book originally published thirty-three years ago. To most readers it will be new; to all, certainly, for whom it is in the first instance intended. It deals with the sports and amusements of certain schoolboys, their ex- periences among fishes, birds, and beasts of all kind, such as are found in English earth and water ; their deeds in the cricket-field ; and such like matters. Dr. Atkinson is an admirable guide for young readers. He amuses them, but he also teaches them to observe. A boy may go to the book thinking of entertainment only, but he must be dense indeed if he does not bring away from it something better.