In an Eton Playing - Field. By E. M. S. Pilkington. (Edward
Arnold.)—The "Eton Playing-Field" has nothing in common with that which Gray and the Duke of Wellington apostrophised. It is located in the region of Hackney Wick, and those who use it are of a different type from the gilded youth which is to be seen on the streams and meadows of Eton, for the Lea at Hackney is very unlike the Thames at Eton. The Playing-Field is the region in which the Eton Mission is at work. This account of its doings is very- instructive and, at the same time, entertaining. Mr. Pilkington and his friends try to bring some pleasure of an honest, manly kind into the dull and squalid lives of East End workers, and succeed in bringing it, not without more serious profit to those among whom they work, and, it cannot be doubted, to them- selves also. We strongly commend this little chronicle to our readers.
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