2 MAY 1868, Page 22

Foxholme Hall, and other Stories. By W. H. G. Kingston.

(Vir- tue.)—This book is intended for boys, but the stories contained in it are not such as we can recommend to a youthful audience. Perhaps the ghost stories and that about a witch sailing across the Atlantic in a skiff, and acting in other respects like a rat without a tail, may have an effect on the very young. The elder ones will also make an exception in favour of " Early Days at Eton," though any who can catch the point of the sketch of the " wall-cad " portrayed by Mr. Kingston will be able to detect the inaccuracy of his description of a flogging. The rest of the contents are below the mark, and as Mr. Kingston has written stories of a better character, we do not think that his present book should be allowed to pass uncensored.