The Triple Alliance. By Harold Avery. (Thomas Nelson grid Sons.)—The
Triple Alliance is the history at a private and alter- wards at a public school of three boys. The alliance of Biggorg Trevannock and Jack Vance with Mugford, popularly known as "Mug," was a great advantage to the latter, who was continually in hot water. The Triple Alliance is conspicuous in the first part of the book for its ingenuity in playing tricks on the "Philis- tines," the boys of a neighbouring rival school ; the head boy of the latter, by name Noaks, a bully and a coward, being their especial butt. In due time the three boys pass on to Ronleigh College. Noaks also goes there, and gets into a bad set, which is continually thwarted by the " Alliance " when trying to revenge itself on the prefects who interfered in their pet schemes. We think The Triple Alliance a very pleasant and wholesome story.
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