Billets and Bullets. By Hugh St. Leger. (Griffith, Ferran, and
Co. 3s. 61)—Hugh St. Leger has certainly given us some- thing fresh in the way of plots. A young man reading for the Army is suddenly summoned by his sister to rescue her from marriage to a brown Pasha. He accomplishes this, and the bad uncle and the Pasha are left in the lurch. Cecil Forrest then enlists, is kidnapped, makes several attempts to escape,—and the rest we leave to the reader. We are introduced to a great deal of camp life, mostly in Ireland, and this will interest boys. The story is lively, briskly told, not wildly improbable, and readable. There
• is little fighting, but even a boy can get on without that at times, and he will find the Irish incidents entertaining and in- structive enough to keep his attention A great deal of disagree- able work has to be done there, which, trying as it may be, is a good education for a soldier.
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