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Bather a Sc,apegrace. By Mrs. Neville Cubitt. (S.P.C.K. 2s. 6d.) —Raymond Curtis is the chief figure in the book. He is a type of the straightforward schoolboy, with no more than the usual amount of talent for getting into mischief. The boy is an orphan, and has to spend his Christmas holidays with a cousin of his mother, and appears to be in for a slow time ; but fortu- nately Aunt Edith, as he calls her, reforms under the advice of a clergyman, and he enjoys himself thoroughly. A large part of the book is devoted to life at a preparatory school, where he and his younger brother Tony are. There is plenty of incident in their life at school and in the holidays they spend with another aunt, whose only idea is to make Tony overeat himself; there, happily, Raymond steps in and takes care of him. We feel sure boys will enjoy the book.
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