4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 11

Bravo Bob! By Andrew Home. (W. and R. Chambers. 3s.

6d.) —It sometimes strikes us—quite possibly we have already expressed the thought in print—that these stories of boys' life are not im- proved, are even a little spoilt, by having a regular plot. Here we are not particularly impressed by the deno4ment ; on the other hand, some of the adventures are quite admirable. Such is the climbing up of the three friends to the top of the church tower, and their escape from it when they find that they have been locked in. The boys, too, are well individualised ; there is not one whom we cannot realise. Mr. Harold Copping's illustrations are of excellent quality.