The Triumph Of The Tramp Ship. By Archibald Hurd. (cassell.
7s. 6d.) The history of the cargo-carrying vessels from the Phoenician period up till now as given in this short book is exceedingly interesting, although the author's English......
Robinson Crusoe. By Daniel Defoe. (selwyn And Blount. 3s....
net.) This unabridged edition, with many illustrations, although quite clearly printed, occupies less than five hundred pages. Mr. Ambrose Dudley, the illustrator, has......
Topsy-turvy Academy. By R. A. H. Goodyear. (harrap. 5s....
" The introduction of two American boys into the conven- tional Public School of fiction has pleasantly varied the formula that all writers of school stories seem to observe.......
Stephen Goes To Sea. By A. 0. Cooke. (blackie. 5s.
net.) Stephen was washed off a trawler and found himself in the midst of the Atlantic beside an upturned boat. He righted the boat, got into her and was soon picked up by a......
A Small Boy With Nautical Predilections Might Prepare For...
first year at Dartmouth with this excellent instructor. A rhyme describes the functions of the letters in the usual way, as A for the Admiral.. . ." A small note beneath gives......
Sergeant Silk, The Prairie Scout. By Robert Leighton....
net.) So long as solitary red-coated North-West Mounted Police- men tracking cattle thieves across uninhabited prairies and fighting hordes of howling Injuns have any appeal to......
Thickthorn Camp. By Mark Harborough. (milford. 3s. 6d....
philanthropic landowner lets a troop of Scouts have the run of a part of his estate, much as a few very philanthropic landowners have done in real life ; they fell trees and......
Godfrey Marten, Schoolboy. By Charles Turley. (heinemann....
MARTEN, SCHOOLBOY. By Charles Turley. (Heinemann. Os. net.) This reprint of a well-known school story is to be com- mended. Mr. Turley writes uncommonly well and his story,......
The Hero Of This Agreeable Tale, After Enlisting As A
soldier somewhere about the year 1803, was pressed for the Navy and shipped off to Ceylon. There he took part in the for- gotten campaign against the King of Candy and was......
Prefect And Fag. By C. Mansford. (jarrolds. 5s. Net.) The
villain of this story is one of the most repulsive and cruellest bullies of whom we have ever read. He reforms at the end and the reader shuts the book with a sense that poetic......
The Boys Of Dyall's House. By Richard Bird. (blackie. 5s.
net.) THE BOYS OF DYALL'S HOUSE. By Richard Bird. (Blackie. 5s. net.) Mr. Bird is a most skilful compounder of school stories. His new book is as ingenious and amusing as ever.......
The White Man's Trail. By Robert Leighton. (pearson. 4s. 6d.
net.) White Calf, as an infant, was found lying asleep between the horns of a white buffalo which a hunter had shot. He grew up among the Red Indians of North-Western Canada and......
This Is A Pleasant And Unambitious Story Of Boys At
a north country school, told with quiet humour. Nothing very unusual happens, but for that very reason the tale is perhaps more true to life than many more thrilling school......
"many Wrong Ideas Concerning Chinese Customs, Manners,...
still encountered among English people." To correct some of these, Mr. Lee has written an elementary but most informative and pleasantly written little book on daily life in......
She Blows I And Sparm At That! By William John
Hopkins. (Constable. 10s. 6d. net.) A tale of experiences on a whaler in the 'seventies. There is a good measure of adventure and hazard, and accounts so excit- ing and well......
The Yellow Pirates. By J. Finnemore. (black. 5s. Net.) Mr.
Finnemore's short stories of adventure in the China seas, in Sicily, Burma, the Australian bush and in Russia, are exciting and well told. The title-story might be a description......
The Secret Of The Sword. By Draycott M. Dell. (jarrolds.
5s. net.) We have here a superlative example of fine writing. "Good- bye, my blade—good-bye." This is the address of a dying man to his sword. The story might be vaguely......
The Greenway Heathens By R. A. H. Goodyear. (nisbet. 5s.
net.) THE GREENWAY HEATHENS By R. A. H. Goodyear. (Nisbet. 5s. net.) This is a school story for young boys made upon the ordinary pattern, but better reading than most of its......
The Summer Camp. By A. D. Merriman. (oxford University...
2s. (id.) As a book of instruction for scoutmasters The Summer Camp should be very useful. It describes the preliminary work necessary before a camp can be pitched, and gives......
Boys' Books.
A FEW decades ago G. A. Henty and Jules Verne represented the archetypal adventure book, just as Marryat and Fenimore Cooper did before them. Henty gave his heroes minor parts......
Jim From Jimbaloo. By Alfred Judd. (pearson. 4s. Net.) Jim
is an English boy who comes fresh from East Africa to an English school and introduces his chums to some novel kinds of amusement. The attempts of a Chinaman to steal Jim's......
The Prefects' Patrol. By H. Avery. (nisbet. 5s. Net.) Mr.
Avery is a spirited writer and the descriptions of games in the Prefects' Patrol are very well done. The relation of the fags to their awe-inspiring masters, the Prefects,......
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