About Some Fellows ; or, Odds and Ends from My
Note-Book. By an Eton Boy, Author of "A Day of My Life at Eton." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a sufficiently amusing little book. It makes fun of a good many things which are more or less laughable, and it is quite possible to read it with interest without having any special acquaint- ance with Eton. The best joke, of course, in the book is the idea of reading, or to speak with technical correctness, " sapping." One Miatt is the principal " follow " that ono reads about, and ho goes up to Eton ono-half with the resolution to " sap," which, indeed, he seems to have been doing with a certain amount of perseverance and success before. Now ho sets to work in earnest. Wo need not say that, considering tho place where the scene is laid, this situation is one that offers great opportunities for humour. There is a drollery in the idea itself, and it only wanted a skilful pen like that of the "Eton Boy " (who, by the way, must ho a somewhat " old boy " by this time) to make a good deal of it.
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