With the Tide. By Sidney Daryl. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—If this
is the sort of tale which boys really like, there is little more to be said ; but it is certainly very strongly flavoured. We part with the hero when he is about ten years of age, and during that time he has been saved from a burning house, has thrown an inkstand at his schoolmaster on the first day of going to school, and on the same day has been kidnapped into a Lancashire factory, has saved a little girl from drowning, has been kid- napped again, has jumped into the Thames, and finally been shipwrecked. The story of course abounds with the stock improbabilities ; the villain, for instance, carries about with him the evidence of his guilt in a letter which he had no possible reason for keeping, and every reason for de- stroying. But, as we said, if boys like this sort of thing, they will have it, as they will have "three-corners," and toffy, and other stuff more or less unwholesome, and grown-up critics may protest in vain.
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