2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 52

The Oxford Annual for Scouts is quite without the faults

of most of the annuals. It is, we mean, without the juvenile detective element. There are no stories about who committed that breach of discipline and who is to be punished for it, of which we should think all little boys must by now be sick. It is a real holiday book about boys' amusements and pleasures, and how to organize them on scout lines. The sort of prepara- tory schoolboys who begin the day with a pillow fight and would like to end it by putting out a neighbour's fire will enjoy every page.