16 JULY 1904, Page 20

The Peradventures of Private Pagett. By Major W. P. Drury.

(Chapman and HalL 3s. 6d.)—There is nothing serious about the stories of Mr. Pagett, ex-private of Marines, and some of them are very amusing. The most entertaining in the book is the account of "The Lower-Deck Tantum Club," which spread confusion through the whole of Malta by driving a " single- horse " tandem pell-mell through the island. People who like comic sketches dealing with both "Services" (Private Pagett was "soldier and sailor too"), and who are not wearied by the account of the hero's perpetual drunkenness, will be amused by this short collection of stories of land and sea.