Recollections of a Town Boy at Westminster, 1849 - 53. By Captain
F. Markham. (E. Arnold. 108. 6d. net.)—An outsider must feel that he is not :one of the readers for whom this book was written, and, therefore, that his opinion of it can be of little worth. There are but few good stories. Still, there are many things which one can read with pleasure. One can recognise the " human boy," who, after all, is much the same through all the centuries. Captain Markham did not, we understand from him, " sap" when he was at school ; but he does not wholly banish from his " Recollections " the element or learning ; he gives, for instance, an interesting account of the " challenge " system, and says some- thing; though not very much, about the " Play." (Why does not some one put together a volume of the epilogues, not printing them at length, but giving the best things, with here and there an explanatory note ?) Our author thinks that in his time "there was very little intentional bullying."
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