The White Stone. By H. P. Macllwaine. (Wells Gardner, Darton,
and Co. 3s. 6d.)—This story is distinctly above the average of its class. The scene opens in New Zealand, and introduces the hero in his thirteenth year, a lad of the woods, expert in all the arts and crafts of wild life. But his parents are aware that he must not grow up in this fashion, and, with much reluctance, they send him to be educated in England. The lad's determined efforts to conquer his books and his games are admirably described,—the way in which he learns to bowl is especially good. We have had lately an experience that we may be beaten in things where we thought ourselves pre-eminent by the vigour and energy of our kinsmen from the other side of the world, and this experience finds an interesting parallel here. We are inclined to think that the tale is not improved by the
affair of the gold. •
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