25 OCTOBER 1890, Page 24

Halt ! By the Author of " Honour Bright." (Wells

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a bright and vigorous story, enforcing the moral of obedience in a very forcible way. The hero is a well-meaning lad who is in too great hurry, and is anxious to do his duty, but to do it in his own way. Thus he brings his own life and the lives of others into peril. His adventures are well described. It is well that a boy's Christmas holidays are not commonly so crowded with sensations—our hero, among other experiences, gets under the ice and falls into an old gravel-pit- but they cannot pay too high a price for such lessons as Master Tom learns. There is a pleasant admixture of humour in the book,—witness the scene in the linendraper's shop. Altogether it is a success.