College School Memories. By F. Hannam-Clarke. (Mrs. Packer, Gloucester.)—Reminiscences of
school-days are interesting to all people who have been boys, even should they not belong to the school itself. To the "old boys" themselves, a collection of names, incidents, and events has a value far beyond the literary value of the book. And the literary value of these " Memories" is very small indeed. It requires great skill to arrange the mis- cellaneous details of historical and boyish reminiscences in a well- proportioned form. There is much, however, to interest colleagues in College School Memories, and some good things. The boy who, repeating a line from the 2Eneid from memory, found it necessary to fill in a gap, "Ingens argentum mensis, do tip us ! in auro," showed great presence of mind. Another boy was equally ready, if less successful, in translating parce metu by "spare me and you." We may remind Mr. Clarke that it is not customary to use the pronoun either " in referring to more than two people.
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