5 NOVEMBER 1892, Page 10

Bert Lloyd's Boyhood. By J. Macdonald Oxley, LL.D. (Hodder and

Stoughton.)—This "story from Nova Scotia" is pleasantly written, and has the advantage of a certain novelty in its surroundings. Boys seem to be much the same in Nova Scotia as they are here, though they call playing truant " meeching," and are punished for their transgressions—as indeed becomes "new Scotland "—with the "taws," instead of the birch or the cane. Bert Lloyd is a fine manly young fellow, and his struggles for right with others, and with himself, can hardly be read without some profit.