15 NOVEMBER 1884, Page 23

The Adventures of Maurice Drummore. By Linden Meadows. (J. Hogg.)—This

is a republication of a story which appeared in a periodical nearly thirty years ago. Maurice is a very rollicking sort of person, who goes through all sorts of adventures, chiefly of the humorous or pugnacious kind. We have seen nothing in the book to centradict at least the latter part of an opinion quoted in the preface, from a correspondent, that it is "one of the cleverest and one of the healthiest tales for boys" with which the writer was acquainted. It is, perhaps, mali exempli that a boy, however spirited, should level a pistol at a schoolmaster, however tyrannical. But the example is not likely to be followed here at least. Across the Atlantic it might, we understand, be a different matter.