Dick's Match. (S.P.C.K.)—" Dick " is a young farmer, very
respectable, but over-confident in himself. He gets into a serape in a poaching affair—he is on the keeper's side, and there is a question of carrying firearms—is convicted of perjury, and sen- tenced to a year's imprisonment. We must own to having failed to understand completely this part of the story. The moral, however, is clear enough—do not trust in your own strength—and it is well enforced.—From the same publishers we get Martin's Drilling, by F. E. Reacle. This is a really excellent story. "Martin" is a very self-willed, passionate boy, who, thanks to various kind friends—a soldier stepfather being the most effective among them —gets a discipline and a teaching which make him into a satis- factory member of society. The book is exactly suited for its probable readers. A particularly good part of the story is that which relates to Martin and his dog Towser." Towser ' is not the least important of the good influences to which the lad is happily subjected.
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