A Collegian in Khaki. By W. Johnston. (R.T.S. 3s. 6d.)—
Charlie Winter, a North Country lad with brains, is clever enough to escape the lot mapped out for him by circumstances, and goes to a Training College. His mother and brother work hard to provide him with the means of obtaining a good education, but Charlie falls into temptation, is expelled, and enlists. The local colouring is good, and the mining village and the veld make a good background for the sterling virtues of the Winter family. The hero is lucky, but so are most heroes, and Charlie's particular luck consists in his having an excellent mother, a brother of fine character, a mentor in a soldier parson who becomes a chaplain, while he comes in contact later on with some admirable specimens of the non-commissioned officer. We owe Mr. Johnston a great deal for doing justice to a type of man to whom the Army is indebted for more than it can express. This is a story with plenty of incident in it, and gives a fresh and vigorous account of one portion of the Boer War. We are sure all boys will admire the two brothers and the soldier parson, and be touched by the romantic attachment of that paladin of "non-corns.," Sergeant Chard.
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