Mobsley's Mohicans. By Harold Avery. (Nelson and Sons. 3s. 6d.)
—This is one of the most enjoyable school stories that have been published for many a day. Hanover House Academy "was not an educational establishment that had made a name in the world"; indeed, it was a place where there were no studies or sixth form, and only a dozen boarders and fifteen day boys. Yet during two terms at least it was the home of some mischievous and high-spirited lads who, following the lead of Mobsley, one of their number, took the names of the Indian braves who figure in what is still the most popular of Fenimore Cooper's stories, and played all sorts of pranks. Their achievements, from bedroom cricket onwards to the prevention of a burglary and the apprehen- sion of a notorious thief and his accomplices, are very cleverly told. There is a great deal of excellent and not too boisterous fun in this book.
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