4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 10

The Little Tin Soldier. By Graham Mar. (W. and B.

Chambers 2s. 6d.)—We need not criticise the romance of this story. The heirs to peerages are not often kidnapped, but they may be,— there is, or used to be, a business of this kind in the United States which had to do with the children of millionaires. But when this particular heir, having been recovered, goes to Eton, we are on more familiar ground. The Provost and the Head-Master are not the same officials, and the time-honoured castigation is given with a birch, not with a cane, nor on the hand, but elsewhere.