30 APRIL 1870, Page 24

The Boys of Axleford, by Charles Camden (Bell and Daldy),

is a set of bright, lively, and humorous sketches of boy life, published originally, if we remember, in Good Words for the Young, and coming therefore well recommended. The writer knows something of boys, and feels sure that the public would not stand absolute photographs of them ; but Mr. Camden's boys are nevertheless real, with such idealizing as is necessary skilfully managed. —Frank Bennet, by Mrs. Cuthbert Orlebar (Bemrose), also comes with a recommendation from its author's name. This, too, is in part a tale of schoolboy life, but it also travels into regions of which Mrs. Orlebar has apparently some special knowledge, the doings of the Luddites, the rioters who wrecked machinery in the early part of this century. It is a very interesting and well-told tale. —Ralph Saunders (the Book Society), and Labours of Love, by Winifred Taylor (Nimmo), are well-intended little tales, which do not call either for praise or for blame.