A Day of My Life ; or Everyday Experiences of
Eton. By an Eton Boy. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We are assured on good authority that this amusing little volume is the genuine production of an Eton boy. We do not doubt it in the least, but we feel pretty sure that he is not the idle young rascal that he describes himself as being. He speaks of "eight years' experience " in the school. These eight years, we should conjecture, have brought him pretty near to the top, at least as near as can be done without any very extraordinary amount of " sapping," a vice natural to collegers, but only excusable is oppidans if counter- balanced by singular virtue in the cricket-field or on the river. If we have a criticism to offer on the details of A Day of My Life, it 15 that a boy in the position of the writer would not be likely to take his coffee and bun at " Brown's." The present writer wishes to thank the "Eton Boy" for a valuable suggestion, which he would in turn recom- mend to others, about substituting " copies" for the ordinary imposition. Copies improve instead of spoiling the writing, are aggravating in not too excessive a degree, can be easily be looked over, and cannot be "fudged." We recommend to our readers, young and old, this most entertaining little book.
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